How to install Spotify 1.0.69 For Linux mint 18.3
How to install Spotify 1.0.69 For Linux mint 18.3
Spotify remains one of the most widely used music streaming services. But with the rising of the likes of Apple music, Spotify team have constantly been releasing new features like Release radar and Discover Weekly, including Daily Mix. Unfortunately, Spotify for Linux is no longer in active development as there are no developers working on it, hence future updates/bugfixes would no longer be provided and supported.
Installation
In order to Download go to the official site and choose your distro package https://www.spotify.com/int/download/linux/ for Debian package
Also, add the Spotify repository signing keys to be able to verify downloaded packages as follows
linuxhelp ~ # sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 0DF731E45CE24F27EEEB1450EFDC8610341D9410
Executing: /tmp/tmp.AvqHUS5G7n/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80
--recv-keys
0DF731E45CE24F27EEEB1450EFDC8610341D9410
gpg: requesting key 341D9410 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 341D9410: public key " Spotify Public Repository Signing Key < tux@spotify.com> " imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
Now, add the Spotify repository
linuxhelp ~ # echo deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
Update the list of available packages as follows
linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:3 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease [3,302 B]
Get:4 http://repository.spotify.com stable/non-free amd64 Packages [1,606 B]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get:6 http://repository.spotify.com stable/non-free i386 Packages [1,152 B]
Ign:7 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
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Get:27 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages [6,628 B]
Get:28 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe i386 Packages [6,620 B]
Get:29 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe Translation-en [105 kB]
Fetched 5,030 kB in 8s (625 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
After updating the repository install the Spotify using the following command
linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install spotify-client
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libcurl3
Recommended packages:
libavcodec54 | libavcodec-extra-54 libavformat54
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libcurl3 spotify-client
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 210 not upgraded.
Need to get 89.8 MB of archives.
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Unpacking spotify-client (1:1.0.69.336.g7edcc575-39) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Setting up libcurl3:amd64 (7.47.0-1ubuntu2.6) ...
Setting up spotify-client (1:1.0.69.336.g7edcc575-39) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Now Spotify is installed and you can access the application from the menu as follows
With this, the method to install Spotify 1.0.69 For Linux mint 18.3 comes to an end.
Go to Edit - Preferences in Spotify.
Go to Edit - Preferences and check folder location, then copy and paste it in My Computer.