Installing Spotify on 13.2

mtbisc · April 29, 2015, 5:25pm

I have searched the internet restlessly for a way to properly install Spotify on openSUSE 13.2, but so far haven’t been able to find one that works. I tried pretty much everything I could find. Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks very much, anyway.

gogalthorp · April 29, 2015, 5:37pm

Did you search Yast-software management?

I see a spotify installer in the packman repo

hendersj · April 29, 2015, 5:41pm

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:26:01 +0000, mtbisc wrote:

> I have searched the internet restlessly for a way to properly install
> Spotify on openSUSE 13.2, but so far haven’t been able to find one that
> works. I tried pretty much everything I could find. Does anyone know how
> to do this?
> Thanks very much, anyway.

I have got it working on my desktop (in fact, listening to something on
the latest build right now).

I’ll have to dig around a bit and see which installer I used the last
time - I’ve got a few versions on my system. The primary maintainer
(aspiers) indicates that the scripts are currently broken, but there a
few forks that apply various fixes. As I recall, when I last updated my
installation, I had to manually tweak the spec file.

I’ll try to find some time tonight (or as late as this weekend) to see if
I can work out what exactly I did.

Jim

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hendersj · April 29, 2015, 5:48pm

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:46:02 +0000, gogalthorp wrote:

> Did you search Yast-software management?
>
> I see a spotify installer in the packman repo

As I recall, it doesn’t use the latest Spotify packages.

Jim

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hendersj · April 29, 2015, 5:52pm

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:41:36 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:26:01 +0000, mtbisc wrote:
>
>> I have searched the internet restlessly for a way to properly install
>> Spotify on openSUSE 13.2, but so far haven’t been able to find one that
>> works. I tried pretty much everything I could find. Does anyone know
>> how to do this?
>> Thanks very much, anyway.
>
> I have got it working on my desktop (in fact, listening to something on
> the latest build right now).
>
> I’ll have to dig around a bit and see which installer I used the last
> time - I’ve got a few versions on my system. The primary maintainer
> (aspiers) indicates that the scripts are currently broken, but there a
> few forks that apply various fixes. As I recall, when I last updated my
> installation, I had to manually tweak the spec file.
>
> I’ll try to find some time tonight (or as late as this weekend) to see
> if I can work out what exactly I did.

Actually, I think I just sorted it out…

I used the script from:

https://github.com/nesnomis/opensuse-spotify-installer

But made the following changes:

In the install-spotify.sh script, I changed the version from
0.9.10.17.g4129e1c.78-1 to 0.9.17.1.g9b85d43.7-1 (this is the VERSION
setting).
In the spotify-client.spec file, I also changed the version to match,
and had to change the compression algorithms used in the tar commands -
the following diff captures the changes:


@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ It includes the following features:
# unpack deb
ar -x %{SOURCE0}
# unpack data
-tar -xzf data.tar.gz
+tar -xJf data.tar.xz
# remove used files
-rm {control,data}.tar.gz debian-binary
+rm data.tar.xz debian-binary

The script downloads the .spec file from the github repository; I
manually copied the .spec file to the proper build location - as I
recall, the script didn’t overwrite it because it already existed (my
diff on the script doesn’t show that I removed the download operation)
Run the script.

That should get it built and installed, or at least get you on the
right path.

Jim

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mtbisc · April 29, 2015, 6:20pm

hendersj:

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:41:36 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:26:01 +0000, mtbisc wrote:
>
>> I have searched the internet restlessly for a way to properly install
>> Spotify on openSUSE 13.2, but so far haven’t been able to find one that
>> works. I tried pretty much everything I could find. Does anyone know
>> how to do this?
>> Thanks very much, anyway.
>
> I have got it working on my desktop (in fact, listening to something on
> the latest build right now).
>
> I’ll have to dig around a bit and see which installer I used the last
> time - I’ve got a few versions on my system. The primary maintainer
> (aspiers) indicates that the scripts are currently broken, but there a
> few forks that apply various fixes. As I recall, when I last updated my
> installation, I had to manually tweak the spec file.
>
> I’ll try to find some time tonight (or as late as this weekend) to see
> if I can work out what exactly I did.

Actually, I think I just sorted it out…

I used the script from:

https://github.com/nesnomis/opensuse-spotify-installer

But made the following changes:

In the install-spotify.sh script, I changed the version from
0.9.10.17.g4129e1c.78-1 to 0.9.17.1.g9b85d43.7-1 (this is the VERSION
setting).

In the spotify-client.spec file, I also changed the version to match,
and had to change the compression algorithms used in the tar commands -
the following diff captures the changes:
@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ It includes the following features:
# unpack deb
ar -x %{SOURCE0}
# unpack data
-tar -xzf data.tar.gz
+tar -xJf data.tar.xz
# remove used files
-rm {control,data}.tar.gz debian-binary
+rm data.tar.xz debian-binary
The script downloads the .spec file from the github repository; I
manually copied the .spec file to the proper build location - as I
recall, the script didn’t overwrite it because it already existed (my
diff on the script doesn’t show that I removed the download operation)

Run the script.

That should get it built and installed, or at least get you on the
right path.

Jim

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Thanks so much!
So, I tried following your steps and got this error:
About to build spotify-client rpm; please be patient …

Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2HhBb7

umask 022
cd /home/eagle/rpmbuild/BUILD
cd /home/eagle/rpmbuild/BUILD
rm -rf spotify-client-0.9.11.27.g2b1a638.81
/usr/bin/mkdir -p spotify-client-0.9.11.27.g2b1a638.81
cd spotify-client-0.9.11.27.g2b1a638.81
/usr/bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
ar -x /home/eagle/rpmbuild/SOURCES/spotify-client_0.9.11.27.g2b1a638.81-1_amd64.deb
ar: /home/eagle/rpmbuild/SOURCES/spotify-client_0.9.11.27.g2b1a638.81-1_amd64.deb: File format not recognized
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2HhBb7 (%prep)

RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2HhBb7 (%prep)
rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/packages/SPECS/spotify-client.spec failed! Aborting.

I got the same thing on one of my attemps to install it before, no idea why.

hendersj · April 29, 2015, 6:46pm

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:26:01 +0000, mtbisc wrote:

> Thanks so much!
> So, I tried following your steps and got this error:
>
> About to build spotify-client rpm; please be patient …
>
> Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2HhBb7 + umask 022 + cd
> /home/eagle/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd /home/eagle/rpmbuild/BUILD + rm -rf
> spotify-client-0.9.11.27.g2b1a638.81 + /usr/bin/mkdir -p
> spotify-client-0.9.11.27.g2b1a638.81 + cd
> spotify-client-0.9.11.27.g2b1a638.81 + /usr/bin/chmod -Rf
> a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
> + ar -x
> /home/eagle/rpmbuild/SOURCES/spotify-
client_0.9.11.27.g2b1a638.81-1_amd64.deb
> ar:
> /home/eagle/rpmbuild/SOURCES/spotify-
client_0.9.11.27.g2b1a638.81-1_amd64.deb:
> File format not recognized error: Bad exit status from
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2HhBb7 (%prep)
>
>
> RPM build errors:
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2HhBb7 (%prep)
> rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/packages/SPECS/spotify-client.spec failed!
> Aborting.
>
>
> I got the same thing on one of my attemps to install it before, no idea
> why.

What version of ar is on your system?

Jim

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mtbisc · April 29, 2015, 9:20pm

Version 2.24.0.20140403-6.1

hendersj · April 29, 2015, 10:33pm

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:26:02 +0000, mtbisc wrote:

> hendersj;2707436 Wrote:
>>
>> What version of ar is on your system?
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
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> Version 2.24.0.20140403-6.1

That’s the version I have. Does an “rpm -V” of binutils report any
issues related to it?

Jim

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mtbisc · April 30, 2015, 1:40am

Nope, doesn’t report anything

hendersj · April 30, 2015, 2:16am

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:46:01 +0000, mtbisc wrote:

> hendersj;2707481 Wrote:
>>
>>
>> That’s the version I have. Does an “rpm -V” of binutils report any
>> issues related to it?
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>> –
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>
> Nope, doesn’t report anything

I’ll try to find some time in the next day or so to run through the
installation again - I think my laptop still needs the update.

Jim

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