How to use QQ and WeChat on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

Question

How can I install and use QQ and WeChat with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? Are there any solutions or suggestions?

Answer 1

WeChat

Franz

You could use Franz and configure your WeChat account there.

It supports:

• Slack
• Messenger (Facebook)
• WhatsApp
• Telegram
• Skype
• WeChat
• Hipchat
• ChatWork
• Flowdock
• Hangouts
• GroupMe
• Rocket.chat
• Mattermost
• Grape
• Gitter
• TweetDeck
• DingTalk
• Steam Chat
• Discord
• MySMS

so far with 3.0.0 and is available for Windows, Linux and OSX.

QQ

I don't know what QQ is - so can't comment on this.

Answer 2

One way is to install WeChat is a third-party WeChat client for Linux called electronic-wechat.

1. Go to https://github.com/geeeeeeeeek/electronic-wechat/releases
2. Download the file for your architecture, either linux-ia32.tar.gz or linux-x64.tar.gz
3. Extract the file with tar xvf linux-ia32.tar.gz or tar xvf linux-x64.tar.gz
4. Go to the directory with the extracted file and run ./electronic-wechat

Answer 3

Installing electronic-wechat works for me.

sudo apt install snapd snapd-xdg-open
sudo snap install electronic-wechat

Answer 4

Install WeChat Success

0x01、 My environment

1. Ubuntu 18.04
2. wine-4.0
3. WeChat2.6.7.57

0x02、 My operate

2.1、 First Failed Operate (About □)

1. install update wine to 4.0
2. install WeChat direct
3. all text is □ □ □ □ □

4. fix □ ,By edit WeChat.desktop file file path:~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/WeChat/WeChat.desktop

   [Desktop Entry]
   ...
   Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/tom/.wine" wine C:\\\\windows\\\\command\\\\start.exe /Unix /home/tom/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Desktop/WeChat.lnk
   ...
   

   to

   [Desktop Entry]
   ...
   Exec=env LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8 WINEPREFIX="/home/tom/.wine" wine C:\\\\windows\\\\command\\\\start.exe /Unix /home/tom/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Desktop/WeChat.lnk
   ...
   

5. Now , I can read and send msg,but My write panel don't show my writed text

2.2、 Second Failed Operate

I wont to fix the problem that write panel not't show text ,i do that:

1. open my Windows 10
2. copy C:\Windows\SysWOW64\riched20.dll to .wine/drive_c/windows/syswow64\riched20.dll
3. copy C:\Windows\System32\riched20.dll to .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/riched20.dll
4. reopen WeChat,but failed

2.3、 Success Operate

1. after 2.1、2.2 , I unInstall WeChat
2. download qq.exe、tim.exe and install them
3. download wechat.exe and install it
4. fix wechat.desktop to :

   [Desktop Entry]
   Name=WeChat
   Exec=env LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8 WINEPREFIX="/home/tom/.wine" wine C:\\\\windows\\\\command\\\\start.exe /Unix /home/tom/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Desktop/WeChat.lnk
   Type=Application
   StartupNotify=true
   Path=/home/tom/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files (x86)/Tencent/WeChat
   Icon=06F2_WeChat.0
   StartupWMClass=wechat.exe
   Name[en_US]=WeChat_1.desktop
   

5. copy .wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Tencent/TIM/Bin/RICHED20.DLL to .wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Tencent/WeChat/RICHED20.DLL
6. about wine config
   • open winetricks
   • select the default wineprefix (click ok)
   • install a Windows DLL or component (click ok)
   • check riched20、riched30、richtx32 (click ok)
7. open my WeChat

2.4、 I don't know why

but my WeChat can work well now

1. read 、 write msg
2. send and download file
3. Screenshot and send picture filed ，but i install deepin Screenshot fix it

0x03、 Reference

1. about □ □ □ □
2. about write panel 1
3. about write panel 2

Answer 5

QQ

I'd like to suggest Wine QQ.

First download it from ubuntukylin(it's a modified version of Ubuntu by Chinese) and extract the files.

Cd into the folder, and install all the debs using following commands:

sudo dpkg –i DEB_PACKAGE

For those who encounter dependencies unmet:

sudo apt-get -f  install ./wine-qqintl_0.1.3-2_i386.deb

Answer 6

1. I found this

Deepin-Apps-Installation

This repo shows how to install apps packaged with deepin-wine by Deepin on Ubuntu based linux distributions, like Wechat, QQ, TIM, Thunder Speed etc.

2. Maybe you don't need to install the software, since they both have web-based versions:

   • WeChat
   • QQ