Ubuntu – Properly update Telegram

16.04apttelegramupdates

I have Telegram Desktop, and every now and then the Update Telegram button appears at the bottom of the Telegram app GUI.

If I run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade nothing happens. There aren't any telegram packages in the list of packages.

If I click on the update bottom from the GUI, nothing happens and after a while the button pops up again.

How can I solve this? Can I update from a terminal?

Best Answer

In Ubuntu 18.04 and earlier open the terminal and type:

sudo apt install telegram-desktop

You don't have the Telegram snap package from the Ubuntu Software application installed. If you want to install the latest stable version of Telegram, the name of the snap package to install is telegram-desktop and the commands to install it are:

sudo apt install snapd  
sudo snap install telegram-desktop

Telegram is a popular messaging protocol with encryption and security as its key focus. telegram-sergiusens is the latest version of Telegram, the same version as the Telegram file that is available at the official Telegram website. The command to update telegram-desktop is:

sudo snap refresh telegram-desktop   
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