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= Installing Spotify on Fedora
Ankur Sinha; Weverton do Couto Timoteo; Mohammadreza Hendiani
:revnumber: F38
:revdate: 2023-07-04
:category: Installation
:tags: How-to, Flatpak, DNF, RPMFusion, Spotify
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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.
[install-spotify-using-flatpak]
== 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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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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[install-spotify-using-snap]
== 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 snaps 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.
[install-spotify-using-rpmfusion]
== Using the RPM Fusion repository
// UNVERIFIED
For this method, please refer to the link:https://github.com/leamas/lpf[`lpf GitHub Page`]
requirements.
. xref:rpmfusion-setup.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/