Telegram is the free instant messaging application that can be used to connect to friends, family, and relatives. The application completely free, open source and ads free. Telegram is available for Linux, Android, Windows Phone, iOS, and Mac OS X.

Telegram is rapidly being developed and it is available for every mobile platform, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Ubuntu Touch. Earlier it was not officially available for Desktop but recently developers have released for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X desktop. The most Telegram developers care for is privacy and security. All messages, photos, and chats are encrypted tightly and take care of privacy too.

Install Telegram on Linux

I am telling here the two easy ways to install Telegram into your Linux Desktop. Download Telegram from the Telegram website and follow these simple steps –

Download telegram from website

2. Extract the downloaded packages and run the Telegram file.

Extract the downloaded file

3. Running it first time will create a shortcut so that you can quickly run it from dash.

Run from the shortcut added to the dash

There you’ve done it! Sign up or log in and enjoy.

Sign up or login into the app

The second method of installing Telegram in Linux is using PPA:

There is an unofficial PPA available for Telegram. Here is how you can install telegram using PPA – Open terminal and type these commands – Add repository first sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/telegram

Update repositories sudo apt-get update

Install Telegram sudo apt-get install telegram

There you’ve installed it!