I am sure that many of you remember the coolest Linux Distro Madrake Linux, which left the domain sometime back. It was what Ubuntu is now or better. Anyway, the legacy has been carried by two derivatives of Mandriva : Mageia & OpenMandriva. However Mageia seems more mature and stable than the other sibling, though some of the packages are not available in main repo. Packages likes Brave Web browser, Telegram desktop and Atom Text editors are easy to be installed in Arch/Manjaro or Debian/Ubuntu boxed but not in Mageia. Here you can read how to install Brave web browser, Atom Editor and Telegram Desktop

To install brave web browser, go to their website , and find the instructions for ( Fedora 28+ )
As per the instruction, in your mageia terminal, first be the root,then

# dnf config-manager --add-repo https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/ # rpm --import https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc # dnf install brave-browser

thats it, Brave web browser is up and running

To install Atom text editor in Mageia 7, below steps to follow

go to and follow commands for Red Hat and CentOS (YUM), or Fedora (DNF)

# rpm –import https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/gpgkey
# sh -c ’echo -e “[Atom]\nname=Atom Editor\nbaseurl=https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/el/7/\$basearch\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=0\nrepo_gpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/gpgkey” > /etc/yum.repos.d/atom.repo'

# dnf install atom

Now you may get an error message which is like this

Error: Transaction check error:   file /usr/bin/apm from install of atom-1.40.1-0.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package apmd-3.2.2-37.mga7.x86_64

If you get this error which means, there is a package named apmd ( Advanced Power Management (APM) BIOS utilities for laptops ) which no more usable / valid for modern Laptops because we use UEFI instead of BIOS. So its safe to remove this apmd. The fun fact is this apmd meet this conflict with Atom package only because of its name but there is no connection with features of two. So once you remove apmd

# dnf remove apmd

Now you can run

# dnf install atom

To install Telegram Desktop in Mageia 7 is easy as pie, but for some reasons, I think my ISP ( Reliance Jio) is not loading the Desktop Telegram website I tried many times but no use. So if you are in India, and using Reliance Jio and having this same issue, you can follow below methods.

Download the latest Telegram Desktop, you can get it using this link too. Untar the file and run the telegram desktop from a terminal.

The other method is to use FlatPak but I had some issues with FlatPak installation. The last method is to install Discover ( for KDE) or Gnome-Software ( for GNOME) and you can download the flatpak file for telegram and open with Discover / Gnome-Software.

Using Discover /Gnome-Software, you can install many other third party flatpak apps too