How to install telegram-desktop in CentOS/RHEL 7 (x86_64)

Telegram is a new era of messaging

License: GPLv3 https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

Install

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y install telegram-desktop

Description

Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free. You can use Telegram on all your devices at the same time — your messages sync seamlessly across any of your phones, tablets or computers. With Telegram, you can send messages, photos, videos and files of any type (doc, zip, mp3, etc), as well as create groups for up to 200 people. You can write to your phone contacts and find people by their usernames. As a result, Telegram is like SMS and email combined — and can take care of all your personal or business messaging needs.

RPMs

telegram-desktop-6.6.2-1.el7.x86_64 [67.3 MiB]

Danila Vershinin (2026-03-04) — - Fix media file editing functionality. · - Resolve admin rights issue in legacy groups for tag editing. · - Correct opening of emoji packs from custom emoji clicks.