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= Installing Spotify on Fedora

link:https://www.spotify.com/[Spotify] is a cross-platform proprietary music streaming service. Spotify is a freemium service, with advertisements which can be removed by purchasing a subscription. Although Spotify is not officially supported on Fedora, it can be installed on Fedora by:

[installation]
== Installation

While it is not officially supported on Fedora or any other RPM-based
distribution, it is possible to install on Fedora using various package methods.

* Using unofficial repositories https://rpmfusion.org/[RPM Fusion] repositories.
* Using a Flatpak hosted by http://flathub.org[Flathub].
* Using the https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/[officially-supported]
http://snapcraft.io/[Snap].

[installing-spotify-from-3rd-party-repositories]
=== Installing Spotify using third-party repositories

[install-spotify-using-rpmfusion]
==== Using the RPM Fusion repository

RPM Fusion provides software that the Fedora Project does not ship. That software is provided as a lpf RPM for all current Fedora versions.
It means that you need to explicitely allow the spotify license before the lpf framework will download and re-package automatically the software.
This is needed because the spotify doesnt't allow the client to be distributed elsewhere than from spotify.com.

To install Spotify using the RPM Fusion repository:

. Add the RPM Fusion repository
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$ sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm \
https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
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. Install Spotify
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$ sudo dnf install lpf-spotify-client
$ lpf approve spotify-client
$ sudo -u pkg-build lpf build spotify-client # It can take up to 5 minutes
$ sudo dnf install /var/lib/lpf/rpms/spotify-client/spotify-client-*.rpm
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[install-spotify-using-flatpak]
=== Installing Spotify using Flatpak

To install Spotify using link:https://flatpak.org/index.html[Flatpak]:

. Install Flatpak using dnf:
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# dnf install -y flatpak
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. Install Spotify using Flatpak:
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# flatpak install -y --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.spotify.Client.flatpakref
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. To run Spotify:
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$ flatpak run com.spotify.Client
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. (Optional) Add a menu shortcut for Spotify:
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$ echo "
[Desktop Entry]
	Name=Spotify
	Exec=flatpak run com.spotify.Client
	Icon=/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/com.spotify.Client.png
	Type=Application" > ~/.local/share/applications/Spotify.desktop
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[instal-spotify-using-snap]
=== Snap

Snap is the officially recommended distribution method for Spotify. To install spotify using http://snapcraft.io/[Snap]:

. Install Snap
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$ sudo dnf install snapd
$ 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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