Installing Spotify

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Installing the Spotify music service client on Fedora.

Installing Spotify on Fedora

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

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 RPM Fusion repositories.
Using a Flatpak hosted by Flathub.
Using the officially-supported Snap.

Installing Spotify using third-party repositories

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

$ 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

Install Spotify

$ 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

Installing Spotify using Flatpak

To install Spotify using Flatpak:

Install Flatpak using dnf:
```
# dnf install -y flatpak
```

Install Spotify using Flatpak:

# flatpak install -y --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.spotify.Client.flatpakref

To run Spotify:
```
$ flatpak run com.spotify.Client
```

(Optional) Add a menu shortcut for Spotify:

$ 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

Snap

Snap is the officially recommended distribution method for Spotify. To install spotify using Snap:

Install Snap

$ sudo dnf install snapd
$ sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap

Install Spotify using Snap:

$ snap install spotify

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