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Today December 2nd I received this message from Telegram service notifications about my outdated Desktop app version:

Please update your app to the latest version. The version you are using is out of date and will stop working soon.

...In Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS the latest released version of Telegram Desktop app is 2.1.7, I ask to you for upgrade soon the repo for LTS with the last version of Telegram, please!

Here is a related question for ARM.

Archisman Panigrahi
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Camilo Bohórquez
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    Have you tried uninstalling your version and simply downloading the latest version from the Telegram website (click Show all platforms). They offer a Snap, a Flatpak, and a simple tar.xz. For extracting the tar.xz, see this other question. That is probobly the easiest way. Alternately, you could file a bug report against the package, and the maintainer might update it – cocomac Dec 03 '21 at 00:07
  • AskUbuntu is a Question and Answer site, "staffed" by volunteers. We don't have anything to do with what software is in repositories. Canonical, a for-profit company, handles that. Read man ubuntu-bug and report your problem/ request to Canonical. – waltinator Dec 03 '21 at 00:12
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    @user535733 telegram-desktop | 2.1.7+ds-2~ubuntu20.04.1 | focal-updates/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64 I suspect, https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=telegram-desktop so possibly https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal-updates/telegram-desktop (I had a like issue awhile back & switched from deb to snap but didn't explore...) – guiverc Dec 03 '21 at 02:34
  • Maybe Ubuntu should either update Telegram like Firefox or Thunderbird, or drop the package. – Archisman Panigrahi Dec 03 '21 at 03:57
  • @cocomac Please rewrite your comment into an answer. – Archisman Panigrahi Dec 03 '21 at 03:59
  • @ArchismanPanigrahi Sorry. I've made a proper answer – cocomac Dec 03 '21 at 04:48
  • @guiverc thanks for the correction! – user535733 Dec 03 '21 at 04:48
  • Does this answer your question? telegram-desktop does not start . I'm using telegram from here, it got updates regularly, it does not complain about "stop working". – N0rbert Dec 03 '21 at 06:23
  • Just for completeness; someone recently filed a bug report on this issue - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telegram-desktop/+bug/1953580 – guiverc Dec 08 '21 at 06:13

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If the source you have isn't updated, you could file an issue and perhaps the maintainer will update it. Of course, make sure your system is up to date first (sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade).

Before trying any of these, remove whatever you already have. If you edit your question to include how you installed it, we can try to help you undo that.

There are a multitude of ways to get the updated version. I've ordered these best-to-worse (in my opinion)

  1. The official download link - Warning: direct download. It produces a tar.xz. See this other question for the ways to extract it. Tl;dr: tar xf archive.tar.xz (credit to @ramslök for that)

  2. The snap package - Snap is a quick and easy way to install packages, and installing Telegram via Snap is very simple

  3. Flatpak - Flatpak is good as well, but I find that Snap is better supported by default in Ubuntu, so I'd suggest Snap over Flatpak

  4. Un-official PPA's - There are some unofficial PPA's like this one, but unless you have a really good reason to not use the three official methods, I don't suggest this. Regardless, here is how you would add that one

    $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/telegram
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install telegram
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  • For a few more ways you can install it, see this other question – cocomac Dec 03 '21 at 04:49
  • I have not used regular Ubuntu (GNOME DE) for a while, but is not right click -> extract here a much simpler choice to extract the .tar.xz? – Archisman Panigrahi Dec 03 '21 at 05:18
  • @ArchismanPanigrahi Not for those that like to use the terminal for everything :) – cocomac Dec 03 '21 at 05:19
  • These snaps are really weird, I already had the snap one, it was stuck at 3.1.1 and the GUI Snap Store was showing "no updates". But when I did sudo snap install telegram-desktop it updated to 4.10.3, or so the command-line said. When I started telegram-desktop its Settings menu was still showing 3.1.1 and some newer messages in some channels were still showing as unsupported because of my Telegram version. These most-recommended options sure look like the most inconvenient to install and keep updated vs. PPAs. (SMH) – Don Joe Oct 28 '23 at 13:50
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update your telegram desktop to visit the store https://snapcraft.io/store or update via command line

sudo snap install telegram-desktop

sudo apt update

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Telegram has self-updater, even if you use portable

telegram update

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