How to run Telegram from Terminal

So I have telegram messenger on my Ubuntu and I'm trying to launch it from terminal and later on set it up as startup program - problem is I cannot find command to run it. telegram/Telegram don't work.

This is how I installed this app:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/telegram sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install telegram 

Thank you for any help.

4 Answers

The app is installed in

/opt/telegram/ 

and the binary is

/opt/telegram/Telegram 

To start the messenger via command line, you have to use the full path or add the path to your PATH definition or create a symbolic link in /usr/bin:

• Use the PATH

  1. Edit the file ~/.profile

     nano ~/.profile 

  2. and add the line below at the end of the file

     export PATH="$PATH:/opt/telegram" 

OR

• Use a symbolic link

  sudo ln -s /opt/telegram/Telegram /usr/local/bin 

You have a desktop file:

/usr/share/applications/telegram.desktop 

and therefore use the command below

cp /usr/share/applications/telegram.desktop ~/.config/autostart 

to create an autostart entry via command line.

Why do I know that?

% dpkg -L telegram /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/telegram /usr/share/doc/telegram/copyright /usr/share/doc/telegram/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/applications /usr/share/applications/telegram.desktop /opt /opt/telegram /opt/telegram/telegram.tar.xz /opt/telegram/telegram.svg % cat /usr/share/applications/telegram.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Name=Telegram Exec=/opt/telegram/Telegram Comment=Network taking back our right to privacy. Icon=/opt/telegram/telegram.svg Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network; 

If you installed using snap, try

telegram-desktop 

Use a Bash alias like this:

alias tg='/opt/telegram/Telegram' 

And then just type:

tg 

in Terminal and it will open Telegram. You can replace tg with what you like.

You can use TelegramTUI on your terminal