Wechat on Ubuntu 22.04

Getting Wechat installed on Linux is always a problem. In 2022,Tencent released the official Wechat Linux build on Ubuntu Kylin.

In this post, I would show how to install the Wechat Linux build in Ubuntu 22.04.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release:	22.04
Codename:	jammy

Update software package information.

apt-get update 

Install fcitx,dbus,locales etc.

apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        build-essential \
        ca-certificates \
        locales \
        locales-all \
        gnupg \
        locales \
        locales-all \
        fcitx-libs-dev \
        fcitx-bin \
        fcitx-googlepinyin \
        fcitx \
        fcitx-ui-qimpanel \
        fcitx-sunpinyin \
        dbus-x11 \
        im-config

Clear the apt cache.

apt-get clean

UbuntuKylin is a Chinese Ubuntu derivative.

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wechat.list file, add ubuntukylin server in the list. Create the file,if the file does not exist.

deb http://archive.ubuntukylin.com/ubuntukylin focal-partner main

Update software package information.

apt-get update 

Install weixin from UbuntuKylin server.

apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        weixin \
        language-pack-zh* \
        chinese* \
        fonts-wqy-microhei \
        fonts-wqy-zenhei \
        xfonts-wqy

Clear the apt cache.

apt-get clean

Edit .bashrc file in you user’s home folder. Add follow lines at the end of the file.

GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
DefaultIMModule=fcitx

Run weixin with –no-sandbox

weixin --no-sandbox"

Notice: Don’t run Wechat with sudo. If you got the error message of no permission to access the .config file etc, the command ‘chmod’ is what you need.

Got the idea from Lei Mao’s blog.