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= Installing Spotify on Fedora
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include::{partialsdir}/3rdparty-message.adoc[]
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include::{partialsdir}/unreviewed-message.adoc[]
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2019-03-19 21:45:10 +00:00
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link:https://www.spotify.com/[Spotify] is a cross-platform proprietary music streaming service.
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Spotify is a freemium service, with advertisements which can be removed by purchasing a subscription.
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Although Spotify is not officially supported on Fedora, it can be installed on Fedora in a number of ways:
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. Using unofficial repositories https://rpmfusion.org/[RPM Fusion] repositories.
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. Using a Flatpak hosted by http://flathub.org[Flathub].
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. Using the https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/[officially-supported] http://snapcraft.io/[Snap].
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[install-spotify-using-rpmfusion]
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== Using the RPM Fusion repository
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// UNVERIFIED
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RPM Fusion provides software that the Fedora Project does not ship.
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Spotify is is provided as a lpf RPM for all current Fedora versions.
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It means that you need to explicitely allow the Spotify license before the lpf framework will download and re-package automatically the software.
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This is needed because the Spotify doesnt't allow the client to be distributed elsewhere than from link:https://www.spotify.com[Spotify.com].
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To install Spotify using the RPM Fusion repository:
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. Add the RPM Fusion repositories:
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$ sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm \
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https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
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. Install the lpf-spotify-client package:
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$ sudo dnf install lpf-spotify-client
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. Install Spotify:
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.. Click the "lpf-spotify-client" icon in the application list.
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.. or use the following command in a terminal:
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$ lpf update
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[install-spotify-using-flatpak]
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== Installing Spotify using Flatpak
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// VERIFIED: on 201901319 by @ankursinha
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To install Spotify using link:https://flatpak.org/index.html[Flatpak]:
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# dnf install -y flatpak
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. Install Spotify:
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.. Using Gnome Software:
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... Head to the link:https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.spotify.Client[Spotify page on Flathub].
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... Click "install", and choose to open the file using Gnome Software.
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... Click "install" in Gnome Software.
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... Click "launch" to run Spotify once installed.
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# flatpak install flathub com.spotify.Client
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. Run Spotify:
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.. Click on the Spotify icon in the applications list,
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$ flatpak run com.spotify.Client
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[instal-spotify-using-snap]
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== Snap
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// UNVERIFIED!
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Snap is the officially recommended distribution method for Spotify. To install Spotify using http://snapcraft.io/[Snap]:
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. Install Snap
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$ sudo dnf install snapd
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$ sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
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. Install Spotify using Snap:
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$ snap install spotify
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== References
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. https://github.com/rpmfusion/lpf-spotify-client
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. https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.spotify.Client
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. https://snapcraft.io/spotify
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