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Hello to whomever is listening,

Since I am not using this package, I will disown it. As of today (2026-01-11) the package is up to date.

Feel free to poke me for maintenance help and hope someone will pick it up soon!

I wrote a yaml config and and an override script for aur-auto-update.

telegram-desktop-dev-bin.yaml:

nvchecker:
  source: cmd
  cmd: |
       bash -c \
       'vers=$(for i in 0 1; do
                   curl -w "%{redirect_url}\n" -o /dev/null -s https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/linux?beta=$i
               done | sed -n -e "s|.*/tsetup\.\([0-9\.]\+\)\(\.beta\)\?\.tar\.xz\$|\1|p")
        vers=($vers)
        [ "${#vers[@]}" != 2 ] && echo "Failed to parse versions from redirect urls" >&2 && exit 1
        if [ $(vercmp ${vers[0]} ${vers[1]}) -gt 0 ]; then
            echo ${vers[0]}
        else
            echo ${vers[1]}
        fi'
test: true

The tricky part was that you either get a stable version URL from https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/linux, or a beta version URL from https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/linux?beta=1, and I didn't find any ready-made nvchecker source types to extract both and select the newer one. So I resorted to writing my own implementation as a bash script, luckily yaml format (used by aur-auto-update, it gets auto converted to toml for nvchecker) supports multiline strings, and so it looks readable.

telegram-desktop-dev-bin.override:

#!/bin/sh
newver="$1"
force="$2"

if [ -z "${force}" ]; then
    oldver=$(grep -P '^pkgver=' PKGBUILD | cut -d= -f2)
    [ $(vercmp "${oldver}" "${newver}") -eq 1 ] && echo "The oldver ${oldver} is greater than newver ${newver}." && exit 1
fi

if [ "${oldver}" != "${newver}" ]; then
    if curl --output /dev/null --silent --head --fail "https://updates.tdesktop.com/tlinux/tsetup.${newver}.tar.xz"; then
        dev=0
    elif curl --output /dev/null --silent --head --fail "https://updates.tdesktop.com/tlinux/tsetup.${newver}.beta.tar.xz"; then
        dev=1
    else
        echo "One URL has to be valid: https://updates.tdesktop.com/tlinux/tsetup.${newver}.tar.xz or https://updates.tdesktop.com/tlinux/tsetup.${newver}.beta.tar.xz"
        exit 1
    fi
    sed "s/^pkgver=.*/pkgver=${newver}/" -i PKGBUILD
    sed "s/^pkgrel=.*/pkgrel=1/" -i PKGBUILD
    sed "s/^_dev=.*/_dev=${dev}/" -i PKGBUILD

    su makepkg -c 'updpkgsums'
fi

We need an override script here, since the default bin/update-pkgver just updates the version, but we also need to set the _dev= value right.

If you're okay with this kind of automation, you can use these files freely. Just create a PR to https://github.com/arch4edu/aur-auto-update with them (or your version), and add AutoUpdateBot to the package as a co-maintainer. Or, I could create a PR myself if you're okay with that, you'd just need to add AutoUpdateBot as a co-maintainer. The bot will then check for new versions daily.

Would renaming the desktop file this package installs as org.telegram.desktop prevent duplicate entries?

Alternatively, file can be added to pacman.conf:

NoExtract   = usr/share/applications/org.telegram.desktop.desktop

Hi, thank you for your work!

What do you think about using aur-auto-update bot to automatically track new releases? It can query for new versions, run test builds and push updates to AUR on success.

today after update, telegram-desktop don't start, a memory overflow happens and I get : Scudo ERROR: internal map failure (NO MEMORY) requesting 34913876KB First time I had problems to start telegram.

@earch theoretically it shouldn't generate its own desktop file.

The reason why I package a desktop file is because I can guarantee people will be able to start the application, just that.

EDIT 1: I looked through the code and it seems the desktop file is generated if you select the built in updater option.

See:

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/v4.11.8/Telegram/SourceFiles/platform/linux/specific_linux.cpp#L417

You probably want to disable that and flag the package here when it is not updated.

Why do we create /usr/share/applications/telegramdesktop.desktop if Telegram creates a .desktop file on its own, when launching it?

For me it's there: .local/share/applications/org.telegram.desktop._f79d601e26a782fd149b3ffb098aae9f.desktop

So I end up with two Desktop Entries in my launcher. Btw they do differ, slightly.

Please remove replaces directive, in accordance with AUR submission guidelines.

Hi @MarsSeed,

All has been done :) See: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/telegram-desktop-dev-bin

Thanks for the detailed guide! Given how busy I am recently, it helped a lot.

You will need to add your co-maintainer to the new package, they won't get added automatically.