[STICKY] Installing Spotify in Zorin 6, 7, or 8

Ok so Spotify is a great media player, it's main focus is free music streaming (oh and 100% legal!).

If you dont know about spotify, you can get info on their site: https://www.spotify.com/us/#features

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First thing we have to do is add the Spotify Repository to our sources.list. This is really easy to do with just 2 simple commands:

Code:

sudo su
echo deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free >> /etc/apt/sources.list
exit


In case you arent familiar, sudo su gives you administrative (aka root) access to the system so you can edit the file sources.list file, and the exit at the end logs you out of that root access
the second command adds the spotify repo to sources.list which is the file that tells Zorin where to look for all its available software

Now the next thing to do is add the authentication key for the spotify repo. this tells Zorin that it is safe to download and install software from the spotify repo.
We can do that with this command:

Code:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59


Now that the system knows the software repo is safe one last command will update the software sources and install the spotify client:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install spotify-client

And thats it. The Sporify client should appear inside your zorin menu or you can start it via terminal via the command:

Code:

spotify

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NOTE: if you are running anything lower than Zorin 6 then it will complain that the dependancy libssl needs to be installed but is not in the repos. i may release another tut showinghow to get around that, but i would recommend just upgrading to 6+

AND as promised, all the commands not broken up

Note: im doing everything in this sert of commands in one shot so i wont be exiting sudo until after the last command

Code:

sudo su
echo deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59
apt-get update && sudo apt-get install spotify-client
exit


Enjoy!

--Ov3rwatch

Gizmuntu wrote:Now the thread is back the way it was in the beginning.
Some things were deleted...so that everything would match the originator of this thread.
Thanks for the contribution [ ov3rwatch ] ! ! ! !

No Problem! and thanks for the assist woith making the thread normal again haha. i would have had no clue how to do it!

Neither did I!

i like the way you explain the spotify player so much amazing, there are many option but as my personal use i love the spotify and however it also gives many kind of wierd errors

This is not working anymore for Zorin 15. Any ideas?

mutly wrote:This is not working anymore for Zorin 15. Any ideas?

Install it from the Software channel.

Swarfendor437 wrote:Install it from the Software channel.

Guess I'm out of luck. It doesn't look that Spotify have a 32 bit client anymore. I'm running Zorin 15 Ultimate Lite 32 bit and I don't see Spotify on that list.

mutly wrote:

Swarfendor437 wrote:Install it from the Software channel.

Guess I'm out of luck. It doesn't look that Spotify have a 32 bit client anymore. I'm running Zorin 15 Ultimate Lite 32 bit and I don't see Spotify on that list.

You might try installing from repository but I highly doubt that it will work. I did some searching and from what I could find, Spotify does put out a Linux version- barely. It is something they say they do in their off-time. There was an announcement made sometime back on Spotify website stating they had no plans to develop a 32bit version for modern systems.

Don't know if the Beta 32-bit binaries form 2015 still available?:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Commun ... -p/1179521