I created this post because I’m an alien hater. And I have no time to explain why standard RPM is over alien. Just search “alien vs standard rpm”. I’m Chinese, those English tech bloggers write better essay than I do. In theory, any Deb oriented package has to be fixed to fit RPM needs.So I wrote a spec and a shell script to build that specfile on your system. Now let’s get everything started:
I have the windows version running using wine… Works fine if you ignore the occasional banner bar talking about a unsupported client. Why is this one different?
Yeah, tried it there now as well… smooth install… The copy and paste in the first point should probably be split since you have to run your very handy script as root… But other than that it’s working great and a lot nicer than the windows client using wine! Thank you! I will link this to a how-to in the Dutch forums… the way explained there is very long winded… this is so much easier!!
Yep, outsmarted in just the blink of an eye.rotfl!
I’m glad that there are multiple sophisticated ways now to install Spotify native on OpenSUSE by using scripts: choice to me is freedom. There are finally people who shame the Spotify Company by doing what it should have done a long time ago. Now I can link to this article in the new howto I’m finishing right now on the Dutch forum and devote some space on other Spotify related subjects.
Hi there,
It seems that another script (install-spotify) has been published in the packman repo for openSUSE 12.2. It’s Spotify version independant or it’s been updated for the 0.8.8.323. I used it to install this new spotify version and it works very well. MargueriteSu: perhaps you would want to check this other script and update yours or joine forces or whatever you feel like doing with it.
It would be rather nice though to see a reaction from you, with your thoughts.
I just changed the version in /usr/bin/install-spotify and /usr/src/packages/SPECS/spotify-client.spec, then I remove ~/rpmbuild and it installs fine. I haven’t started Spotify yet though so I don’t know if it will actually run
100%===========================================================================================================================================================================>] 4,497 --.-K/s in 0.002s
cp -r /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/spotify-client_0.8.4.103.g9cb177b.260-1_amd64.deb ./
cp: cannot stat ‘/usr/src/packages/SOURCES/spotify-client_0.8.4.103.g9cb177b.260-1_amd64.deb’: No such file or directory
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.70LAiH (%prep)
RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.70LAiH (%prep)
Build done! Cleaning…
cp: cannot stat ‘…/RPMS/x86_64/.rpm’: No such file or directory
Resolving dependencies…
Installing…
Preparing… ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing…
1:spotify-client-gnome-support-0.9.################################# 50%]
2:spotify-client-0.9.11.27.g2b1a638################################# [100%]
Congrats! Installation finished.
We put the generated RPM under your home.
Next time you can use 'sudo rpm -ivh --force --nodeps spotify-.rpm’ or
‘sudo zypper --no-refresh install --force-resolution’ to install it.
Quitting…