Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Cutegram is an open-source Telegram application, similar to Sigram. It is developed in Qt5 and QML and uses the libqtelegram and the libappindicator libraries.
Like other Telegram clients for Linux, it has support for Emoji, allows the users to send data by dragging it in the message window and gets integrated with the system notifications.
The latest version available is Cutegram 2.2.0, which has been released a while ago, coming with the below changes:
- Smart scroll bar for dialog list
- Username and Hashtag suggestion
- Update translations and add Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish and Chinese (Taiwan) translations.
- Master color enabled again.
- Search selected text on the web.
- Custom notifications for contact lists.
- Speed improvement
- Bugfix on ubuntu packaging.
- Video thumbnail bugfix on Windows and Mac
- Many other improvements and Bug fixes
In this article I will show you how to install Cutegram 2.2.0 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, ROSA Desktop, Arch Linux, Manjaro and other Linux systems.
The project’s website provides precompiled run packages compatible with all the Linux systems, so all you have to do is download the cutegram*.run package for your system’s architecture, add execution rights and run the package.
How to install Cutegram 2.2.0 on 32 bit Linux systems:
$ wget http://aseman.co/downloads/cutegram/2/cutegram-2.2.0-linux-installer.run
$ sudo chmod +x cutegram-2.2.0-linux-installer.run
$ ./cutegram-2.2.0-linux-installer.run
How to install Cutegram 2.2.0 on 64 bit Linux systems:
$ wget http://aseman.co/downloads/cutegram/2/cutegram-2.2.0-linux-x64-installer.run
$ sudo chmod +x cutegram-2.2.0-linux-x64-installer.run
$ ./cutegram-2.2.0-linux-x64-installer.run