How to Install Franz Messenger 5.1.0 on Ubuntu 19.04

Installation of Franz Messenger 5.1.0

Franz is a cross-Platform messaging app that combines chat and messaging services into one application. Franz currently supports Slack,WhatsApp,WeChat,FaceBook Messenger,Telegram Google Hangouts GroupMe and Skype.This articles explains about the installation of franz messenger 5.1.0 version on ubuntu 19.04

Pre-requisite

gdebi

Features

Free With unlimited services

Desktop notifications

Cloud SYnc

Extensible

Service Proxies

Multiple Instances

Download link :

Click here, to download franz messenger version 5.1.0

Installation procedure

Install the gdebi package to install the debian packages

root@linuxhelp:~# apt install gdebi -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  gdebi-core gnome-icon-theme libgail-common libgail18 libgtk2-perl libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common
  libpango-perl
Suggested packages:
  libgtk2-perl-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gdebi gdebi-core gnome-icon-theme libgail-common libgail18 libgtk2-perl libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
  libgtk2.0-common libpango-perl
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 168 not upgraded.
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Setting up libgail-common:amd64 (2.24.32-3ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.29-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-4ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.32.0-1ubuntu1) ...

Install the frans messenger using wget as follows:

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/releases/download/v5.1.0/franz_5.1.0_amd64.deb
--2019-06-22 12:41:50--  https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/releases/download/v5.1.0/franz_5.1.0_amd64.deb
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 13.234.210.38
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|13.234.210.38|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/106809903/ec585000-6786-11e9-8c91-094e7ee87dde?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20190622%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190622T071206Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=deec7b75d1a688ca69a2c8a9b19d106886c799032243448e12cce4addc9f080c&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dfranz_5.1.0_amd64.deb&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream [following]
--2019-06-22 12:41:50--  https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/106809903/ec585000-6786-11e9-8c91-094e7ee87dde?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20190622%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190622T071206Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=deec7b75d1a688ca69a2c8a9b19d106886c799032243448e12cce4addc9f080c&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dfranz_5.1.0_amd64.deb&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream
Resolving github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)... 52.216.132.91
Connecting to github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)|52.216.132.91|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 80851974 (77M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘franz_5.1.0_amd64.deb’

franz_5.1.0_amd64.deb         100%[==============================================>]  77.11M  1.06MB/s    in 84s     

2019-06-22 12:43:15 (944 KB/s) - ‘franz_5.1.0_amd64.deb’ saved [80851974/80851974]

List the contents to view the debian package of franz messenger

root@linuxhelp:~# ll
total 133196
drwx------  4 root root     4096 Jun 22 12:43 ./
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root     4096 Apr 26 14:11 ../
-rw-------  1 root root      969 Jun  6 10:17 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     3106 Aug  7  2018 .bashrc
drwx------  2 root root     4096 Apr 17 00:34 .cache/
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 80851974 Apr 25 21:51 franz_5.1.0_amd64.deb
-rw-------  1 root root       62 May 16 16:44 .mysql_history
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      116 May 16 16:32 .pearrc
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      148 Aug  7  2018 .profile
-rw-------  1 root root     1068 Jun  6 10:29 .viminfo
-rw-r--r--  1 user user 55491492 Sep  4  2018 VMwareTools-10.3.2-9925305.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x  9 root root     4096 Sep  4  2018 vmware-tools-distrib/
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      165 Jun 22 12:43 .wget-hsts

Install franz messenger using gdebi

root@linuxhelp:~# gdebi franz_5.1.0_amd64.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: gconf-service gconf-service-backend gconf2 gconf2-common libappindicator1 libdbusmenu-gtk4 libgconf-2-4 

Messaging app for WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, HipChat, Hangouts and many many more.
  Franz is your messaging app / former Emperor of Austria and combines chat & messaging services into one application. Franz currently supports Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts, GroupMe, Skype and many more. You can download Franz for free for Mac & Windows.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
/usr/bin/gdebi:113: FutureWarning: Possible nested set at position 1
  c = findall("[[(](\S+)/\S+[])]", msg)[0].lower()
Preparing to unpack franz_5.1.0_amd64.deb ...
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Unpacking franz (5.1.0-1337) ...
Setting up franz (5.1.0-1337) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.32.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-4ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...

Go to activities,Search for Franz Messenger to start using hte application

Click on create a free account,enter the appropriate details to create the account.

Select the support plan as per your requirements Cick on get started Select Whatsapp and add it to the service With this,Installation of Franz Messenger 5.1.0 version on ubuntu 19.04 comes to end.