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Telegram Desktop (messenger) v4.10+ using Glibc 2.29 on Linux Mint 19.3 (Tricia) [Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)]
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Starting with v4.10.0 Telegram has stopped supporting Linux platforms with glibc (GNU C Library) less than 2.29 (2.28?):

> strings Telegram.4.11.3 | fgrep GLIBC_2.2 | tail -1
GLIBC_2.28

Linux Mint 19.3 (Tricia) [Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)] ships with glibc 2.27:

> strings /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 | fgrep GLIBC_2.2 | tail -1
GLIBC_2.27

While modern Telegram might be installed and run by means of snap or flatpak, here's the workaround on how to run it on Linux Mint 19.3 (Tricia) [based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)] w/o "shims" like snap/flatpak:

  • Caveats:

    • The below example assumes /opt/glibc-2.29 as a destination directory for Glibc and auxiliary libs, and /opt/Telegram.yz as destination for patched Telegram binary. Adjust these paths if you'd like to do the things w/o root permissions (which is a recommended way).
    • Telegram auto-update feature won't be working, meaning you will need to execute Download and patch Telegram binary step each time new version of Telegram is released
    • The Expat (XML parsing C library) installation might be a hassle and is not described in this example as luckily for me it was already installed as a required dependency of something else installed via Homebrew: https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux
    • Sound doesn't work. Need to figure this out (no ideas and cues yet), though I don't actually listen to audio/video on desktop version.
      • ⚠️ Workarounded this as of now by enabling external video player under experimental settings under advanced settings menu 🤷
        • 😢 This breaks notification sounds ❔ 🤔

  • Download and install Glibc 2.29:

    cd /tmp/
wget -c https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.29.tar.gz
tar -zxvf glibc-2.29.tar.gz
mkdir glibc-2.29/build
cd glibc-2.29/build
../configure --prefix=/opt/glibc-2.29
make 
make install
cd ../../ && rm -rf glibc-2.29.tar.gz glibc-2.29/

  • Provide correct Timezone knowledge to this custom installation of Glibc:

    ln -s /etc/localtime /opt/glibc-2.29/etc/

  • Link libs required by Telegram into custom Glibc's libs directory

    • You may need to adjust source locations of some of the libs and/or install missing libs if any
    • libexpat may become a pain as it's only v2.2.5 on this box, while more modern version is required by Telegram, though happily I'm a user of Homebrew on Linux, that has Expat of version 2.5.0)
    ln -s /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/lib/libexpat.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/

ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libblkid.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmount.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatk-1.0.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatspi.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo-gobject.so.2 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdatrie.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libepoxy.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgraphite2.so.3 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpixman-1.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthai.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0.3.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-cursor.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-cursor.so.0.0.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-egl.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-egl.so.1.0.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-server.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-server.so.0.1.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11-xcb.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-render.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-shm.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXcomposite.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdamage.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXfixes.so.3 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXinerama.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXi.so.6 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxkbcommon.so.0 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrandr.so.2 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/

  • Download and patch Telegram binary:

    mkdir /opt/Telegram.yz/ && cd /opt/Telegram.yz/
wget https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/linux -O tsetup.tar.xz
tar vfx tsetup.tar.xz --strip-components=1
rm tsetup.tar.xz
patchelf --set-interpreter /opt/glibc-2.29/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --set-rpath /opt/glibc-2.29/ ./Telegram

  • Create (or update your existing Telegram Desktop file) to use correct path:

    > cat ~/.local/share/applications/org.telegram.desktop._0c0ce06c94b8dbcd209b995362e84495.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Telegram Desktop
Comment=Official desktop version of Telegram messaging app
TryExec=/opt/Telegram.yz/Telegram
Exec=/opt/Telegram.yz/Telegram -- %u
Icon=telegram
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=TelegramDesktop
Type=Application
Categories=Chat;Network;InstantMessaging;Qt;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/tg;
Keywords=tg;chat;im;messaging;messenger;sms;tdesktop;
Actions=quit;
DBusActivatable=true
SingleMainWindow=true
X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true
X-GNOME-SingleWindow=true

[Desktop Action quit]
Exec=/opt/Telegram.yz/Telegram -quit
Name=Quit Telegram
Icon=application-exit
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