How do I install flatpack or snap apps on antiX?

[Anonymous]

I’m trying to install telegram and it’s only for linux in snap and flatpack. Does
anyone have experience on installing these kind of apps on antiX or MX?

[Anonymous]

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my current main tower is running MX-21-fluxbox and have antiX 17-21 clients connected
to it.

[Member Xecure]

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Snaps require systemd, though Ubuntu claims it can work without it, but have never put effort into making it possible. Some people in Void have been working on getting it to work there, so if they get it working we may be able to follow their effort and make it work in antiX.

For flatpaks, https://flatpak.org/setup/Debian/
Step 1, 3 and 4 is enough. I will try it out and let you know.

EDIT: It worked for me. I was able to install a flatpak from the terminal.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Xecure.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member PPC]

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It’s always a nice starting point looking around the forum! There’s a sticky post: https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/how-to-install-applications-2020-version/
That talks about flatpaks and snaps…
In short: snaps can’t be installed in antiX because they depend on systemd, which is not included in antiX. On MX-Linux, you can try booting it in Systemd mode and then install snaps
Flatpaks can be installed in both antiX and MX-Linux.
You do have to first install flatpack itself (using Synaptic or the terminal)
sudo apt install flatpak

Please note that, when you try to install a flatpak application for the first time you’ll have to download some dependencies (about half a Gb or so)

In your particular case- can’t you install Telegram from the official link, over at: https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/linux ? (it’s the blue Linux button itself)
Download the compressed file, using your file manager, extract the files that are inside it, then run the “Telegram” executable file, to start it, it worked here…
P.

EDIT: Damn, Xecure, I keep telling you: “Type slower!!!” You’re making me look bad 🙂

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Not sure for older versions, for 21 deb available or.

$ wget -O telegram.tar.xz https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/linux
$ tar xf telegram.tar.xz
$ sudo mv Telegram /opt/telegram
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/telegram/Telegram /usr/bin/telegram

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@Moddit – I just tested on my antiX 19.4 64bits and it ran fine (I don’t have an account to test, but the App window came up just fine)
@Linuxdady – doing what Moddit advised can be done straight from the command line, one command at a time (do not enter the “$” that on the start of each line, that just means you are running the commands from the terminal, as a normal user. You may have to enter your password when you enter the third line, that starts with “sudo”
Those 2 last lines make sure that when you type “telegram” on the terminal or the “run” menu, you launch the app.
If you want to get telegram on the menu, unfortunatly you’ll have to manually create a .desktop file for it…
Run the commands Moddit mentioned first and then, from the terminal:

cd /usr/share/application
sudo touch telegram.desktop
sudo geany /usr/share/application/telegram.desktop

Inside geany text editor, paste this, and save the file:

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Network
Exec=telegram
Icon=/usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/48×48/apps/org.telegram.desktop.png
Name=telegram
Type=Application

Update the antiX menu and you should find “Telegram” on the menu (under Internet). You can use IceWm’s Toolbar Icon Manager to put the icon on the toolbar, if you so wish.

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[Member lyy]

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I installed telegram-desktop through synaptic, it is working fine.

I’m using 21 runit.

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@leoyoshiyang – It’s also available on the antiX 19 repository, but it’s version 1.5.11-1 . The version pulled in from the official website is 3.2.4 – that’s why I recommended downloading directly from their link… When we are using apps that connect via the web, it pays to have them as much up to date as possible…

P.

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Oh I know that but since the OP didn’t mention he was seeking latest version, I thought that wasn’t important.

I assumed OP didn’t know about synaptic because some people don’t.

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lyy wrote:

Oh I know that but since the OP didn’t mention he was seeking latest version, I thought that wasn’t important.

I assumed OP didn’t know about synaptic because some people don’t.

It’s a reasonable assumption! Thanks for pointing the Synaptic option, anyway- next time, folks will try installing from there first, and if the version of the app is too old or insecure, they can perform a manual installation, like Moddit and I talked about!

P.

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Thanks everyone,
It was late when I typed that. Snap was a no go because of systemd stuff and synaptic was an old version.
Today I installed flatpak.

sudo apt install flatpak

then added flathub repo

sudo flatpak remote-add –if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

then browsed flathub.org and it installed the latest telegram 3.2.5 and it works great.

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Thanks for the link to the thread PPC, last time I searched it was missing.

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