---
title: Install telega on Debian using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of telega for on Debian - Full featured unofficial
  client for Telegram in GNU Emacs.
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/telega/debian
---

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# Install telega on **Debian**

# telega

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* [Alex Murray (alexmurray)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/alexmurray "View all snaps from Alex Murray (alexmurray)")

[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/telega/debian#install)

#### Full featured unofficial client for Telegram in GNU Emacs.

telega.el is full featured unofficial client for Telegram platform for GNU Emacs.

Features:

* Listing chats, reordering chats according to internal Telegram order
* Getting info about users, groups and supergroups
* Joining chats by invitation link M-x telega-chat-join-by-link RET
* Fetching chat history, sending messages, replies, edits, deleting
* Creating new groups, upgrading basicgroup to supergroup
* Forwarding messages
* D-Bus notifications on incoming messages in chats with enabled notifications
* VoIP calls, including D-Bus call notification
* Downloading files from the cloud
* Uploading files/media (also pasting images from clipboard) to the cloud
* Display chat actions, such as "@user is typing..."
* Display/Update chat's draft message
* Company backends for emoji (:<emoji> syntax), usernames, hashtags, bot commands completions
* Secret chats
* Online global searching chats/contacts/messages
* Avatars, Photos, Stickers
* Animated GIF, via ffplay
* Special messages such as location/live location, voice/video messages, contacts, etc (PARTLY)
* Poll messages, Poll creation
* Handling local links, such as "tg:" or "<https://t.me/xxx>" (PARTLY)
* ReplyMarkup (inline keyboard buttons) in the messages (PARTLY)
* InstantView for web pages
* Blocking/Unblocking users, listing blocked users
* Inline bots requests, via "@bot query"

After installing:

* Create an alias for telega-server

`sudo snap alias telega.telega-server telega-server`

* Add to your emacs configuration

```
`(add-to-list 'load-path "/snap/telega/current/share/emacs/site-lisp/telega/")
 (require 'telega)`
```

### Package name

* telega

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### License

* GPL-3.0+

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### Last updated

* 9 February 2023 - latest/stable
* 21 February 2023 - latest/edge

This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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### Websites

* [github.com/zevlg/telega.el](https://github.com/zevlg/telega.el "https://github.com/zevlg/telega.el")

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### Contact

* [github.com/alexmurray/telega-snap/issues](https://github.com/alexmurray/telega-snap/issues "https://github.com/alexmurray/telega-snap/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/telega/debian#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on Debian and install telega

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

On Debian 9 (Stretch) and newer, snap can be installed directly from the command line:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:

```
sudo snap install snapd
```

### Install telega

To install telega, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install telega
```

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