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Telegram-desktop instillation issue - Debian Stretch

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Telegram-desktop instillation issue - Debian Stretch

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Having a problem installing Telegram-desktop in Debian Mate Stretch.

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telegram-desktop:
 Depends: qt5-image-formats-plugins but it is not going to be installed
  Depends: libavcodec57 (>=7:3.4.1) but 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1 is to be installed or
 	libavcodec-extra57 but it is not going to be installed
  Depends: libavformat57 (>=7:3.4.1) but 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1 is to be installed
  Depends: libavutil55 (>=7:3.4.1) but 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1 is to be installed
 Depends: libminizip1 but it is not going to be installed
  Depends: libqt5core5a (>=5.9.0~beta) but 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 is to be installed
  Depends: libswresample2 (>=7:3.4.1) but 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1 is to be installed
  Depends: libswscale4 (>=7:3.4.1) but 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1 is to be installed
 Depends: libtgvoip1.0 but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: qtbase-abi-5-9-2
 Recommends: libappindicator3-1 but it is not going to be installed

In terminal I ran:
dpkg --get-selections | grep hold
Which did not display any results which implied no packages were held.

Already did a
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Pl. help.
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Re: Telegram-desktop instillation issue - Debian Stretch

#2 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

You appear to be trying to install the testing version, while you are running stretch.

It's available in stretch-backports - use that (and immediately remove testing from your sources before you break everything!).

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Re: Telegram-desktop instillation issue - Debian Stretch

#3 Post by redfirefly »

dilberts_left_nut wrote:You appear to be trying to install the testing version, while you are running stretch.

It's available in stretch-backports - use that (and immediately remove testing from your sources before you break everything!).

edit: and quit with the huge-arse screenshots... text is fine.

Thanks for your time and your quick reply.
Had used instructions mentioned here: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install- ... etch-linux
to get the latest Firefox Quantum

Figured out how to use backports from https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
, thanks

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main

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#4 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

:roll:

Don't take advice from anywhere that starts with "add sid repo's".

Use the Debian wiki for info, at least until you can tell the difference between good and piss poor advice.
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#5 Post by stevepusser »

64-bit Stretch users can also install the latest version with a flatpak, if you don't mind it being 300 MB.

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# apt install flatpak

$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

$ flatpak install --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.telegram.desktop.flatpakref
I was trying to backport the Buster version this morning per a request, but apparently it needs to compile using gcc-7. I tried to use clang 5.0 as the compiler, but that failed with different errors.
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#6 Post by sunrat »

I've used both the installer from https://desktop.telegram.org/ and using the Debian unstable repo (in an unstable installation) and they both work fine.
In Stretch the preferred method would be the backports repo of course.
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