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I don't know why, but I can only run Telegram with sudo. I just downloaded the tar from desktop.telegram.com and extracted its contents in /usr/local/Telegram.

I can now open the program with:

sudo /usr/local/Telegram/Telegram

but not with

/usr/local/Telegram/Telegram

If I do the second one, I get an error log:

[2016.10.31 12:53:39] Launched version: 10019, alpha: [FALSE], beta: 0, debug mode: [FALSE], test dc: [FALSE]
[2016.10.31 12:53:39] Executable dir: , name: 
[2016.10.31 12:53:39] Initial working dir: /home/iguarna/
[2016.10.31 12:53:39] Working dir: /home/iguarna/.local/share/TelegramDesktop/
[2016.10.31 12:53:39] Arguments: "Telegram"
[2016.10.31 12:53:39] FATAL: Could not open '/home/iguarna/.local/share/TelegramDesktop/log_startXX.txt' for writing log!
[2016.10.31 12:53:39] Connecting local socket to /tmp/95578c71afe4942c16be0fb6f3bfa82f-{87A94AB0-E370-4cde-98D3-ACC110C5967D}...
[2016.10.31 12:53:39] This is the only instance of Telegram, starting server and app...

What could be the reason?

ig343
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The error message FATAL: Could not open '/home/iguarna/.local/share/TelegramDesktop/log_startXX.txt' for writing log! shows that you did run telegram as root, and it created the log file (as root), now, the regular user cannot write to the root-owned log file. Fix this by:

sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) /home/iguarna/.local/share/TelegramDesktop/log_startXX.txt

Where you run a program from is immaterial. Who you run a program as is important.

waltinator
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Put your file in /usr/bin not /usr/local and not the whole folder JUST the telegram executable and then run

Telegram

It starts up for me on 16.04 this way, also, keep that updater script somewhere safe for later.

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