Excellent advice as usual😁. I have more questions but now I have some reading to do. The wiki on Telegram is quite interesting. Thanks again On 5/1/21 3:25 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 01/05/2021 22.02, pj.world@gmx.com wrote:
This is great advice. Can I ask if this direct install link looks like the right way to install Telegram, If I decided to go that route? https://software.opensuse.org/package/telegram-desktop It looks like it's a sort of SMS app that one can attach files to.
Not exactly.
It refers to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)
What you have seen is a client for that network, running on Linux directly. There clients for Android and iphone, too.
If you want to install this app, you do not need that "direct link".
Instead, fire up YaST, select "software management", then click on "search", type "telegram" and hit the search button. Select on the list that should appear on the right the one you want (telegram-desktop), mark it (green checkmark), then select the "installation summary" tab and verify that the list of what it is going to do looks right, and hit "accept".
This tool, AFAIK, does not connect to the phone, it is independent. However, you can install this app on the phone too, and if both have the same identifier then both should see the same content, transmitted via internet (notice I say should, I have not tried). Or you could setup different accounts and transmit things.
I guess also one of the BIG reasons I asked this question in the first place is that there was extremely limited bandwidth 10 kilobits per second (during the time I was trying to help create adds with the iPhone) I wanted to be able to mount the phone and be able to sift through the media/pictures. I do not think their data plan is very good, they were over the monthly usage and throttled down. Now come to think of it they maybe could even upload the photos to my email inbox. Then would most likely the HEIC file be able to be opened by Okular or Gwenview etc?
Surely there is some cloud service that you can automatically upload the photos to from the phone. I don't know, I don't have any Apple phone. There should be clients for that cloud thing running on web browsers on the computer.
I may be mistaken but I read before that one-click installation of software on openSUSE is not the best route.
Correct. I have seen problems over the years. I prefer non automatic routes that give me the control.
I see Telegram on the link above has 2 options "Direct Install or Expert Download". Maybe it's in a repository. I see the Games repository is enormous😁.
And "show telegram-desktop for other distributions", on the left, which is what I used to find the information I needed - namely that it is an "official" app which you can find in the "official repos" and thus YaST will find it.