Telegram
Download Telegram for Linux. The downloaded file was tsetup.version.number.tar.xz
I am following the approach of installing additional software in the /opt folder. Untar it to /opt.
tar zxf tsetup.version.tar.xz -C /opt
The files are unzipped to /opt/Telegram and the file to execute is /opt/Telegram/Telegram
Typically, the permissions would be as below:
[mochapenguin@dv6tqe ~]$ ls -las /opt
total 20
4 drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Jul 26 15:16 .
4 dr-xr-xr-x. 18 root root 4096 Jul 25 11:12 ..
4 drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Jul 24 21:04 google
4 drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Jul 25 20:18 Simplenote-linux-x64-102
4 drwxrwxr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 25 20:14 Telegram
Create a desktop launcher file as specified below:
~/Desktop/Telegram.desktop
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Telegram
Comment=Telegram Messenger
Exec=/opt/Telegram/Telegram
Icon=/home/mochapenguin/.TelegramDesktop/tdata/ticons/icomute_22_0.png
Terminal=false
