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= Installing Spotify on Fedora

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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 in a number of ways:

. Using a Flatpak hosted by https://flathub.org[Flathub].
. Using Snap hosted by https://snapcraft.io/spotify[snapcraft].
. Using the third-party https://rpmfusion.org/[RPM Fusion] repositories.

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== Installing Spotify using Flatpak

// VERIFIED: on 201901319 by @ankursinha

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

. Install Flatpak using DNF:
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sudo dnf install -y flatpak
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. Enable the Flathub remote:
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flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
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. Install Spotify:
.. Using Gnome Software:
... Head to the link:https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.spotify.Client[Spotify page on Flathub].
... Click "install", and choose to open the file using Gnome Software.
... Click "install" in Gnome Software.
... Click "launch" to run Spotify once installed.

.. Using the command line:
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sudo flatpak install flathub com.spotify.Client
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. Run Spotify:
.. Click on the Spotify icon in the applications list,
.. or use the following command in the terminal:
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flatpak run com.spotify.Client
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== Installing Spotify using Snap

To install Spotify using link:https://snapcraft.io/spotify[Snap]:

. Install Snap using DNF:
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sudo dnf install snapd
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. Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
. To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`:
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sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
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. Install spotify, simply use the following command:
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snap install spotify
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. Click on the Spotify icon in the applications list.

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== Using the RPM Fusion repository

// UNVERIFIED

For this method (if you don't have link:https://github.com/leamas/lpf[`lpf`]
configured in your system) will be required to add `pkg-build` group to your
user and on the first run you will be prompted about adding this group to your
user. These prompts disappear after logging out and in again (or rebooting).

. xref:setup_rpmfusion.adoc[Enable the RPMFusion repositories].
. Install the `lpf-spotify-client` package:
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sudo dnf install lpf-spotify-client
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. Install Spotify:
.. Click the "lpf-spotify-client" icon in the application list.
.. or use the following command in a terminal:
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lpf update
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== References

. https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.spotify.Client
. https://snapcraft.io/install/spotify/fedora
. https://github.com/rpmfusion/lpf-spotify-client
. https://github.com/leamas/lpf
. https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/

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