To keep Henk happy (!!) and just to give an update on the problem reported -
After I had installed wine I downloaded the SpotifySetup.exe and clicked on it to run it.
As I have said, the spotify installer ran and after a short period bombed out leaving no trace of spotify.
I then went to a terminal and executed
wine Downloads/SpotifySetup.exe
which ran the installer and bombed as before leaving the wine debug message at the end of the following output
sam@marlin:~> wine Downloads/SpotifySetup.exe
fixme:shell:SHChangeNotify ignoring unsupported flags: 3005
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:shell:SetCurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID L"Spotify.Console": stub
fixme:process:WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId stub
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L"Spotify"): stub
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
fixme:winsock:WSALookupServiceBeginW (0x327e9bc 0x00000ff1 0x2cbbb6c) Stub!
sam@marlin:~> p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
fixme:winsock:WSALookupServiceBeginW (0x33f178 0x00000ff0 0x33f1c0) Stub!
[0702/181625:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(160)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x33f050, overlapped 0x50f6dc8): stub
fixme:winsock:WSALookupServiceBeginW (0x33f1b8 0x00000ff0 0x33f200) Stub!
[0702/181625:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(160)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x33f7b0
fixme:appbar:SHAppBarMessage unknown msg: 4
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETSTATE): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=0): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=1): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=2): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=3): stub
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
fixme:win:RegisterShellHookWindow (0x3003c): stub
fixme:hnetcfg:fw_app_get_Enabled 0x14a6f0, 0x33f0bc
fixme:hnetcfg:fw_app_put_ProcessImageFileName 0x14a6f0, L"C:\\users\\sam\\Application Data\\Spotify\\spotify.exe"
fixme:hnetcfg:fw_app_put_Name 0x14a6f0, L"Spotify"
fixme:hnetcfg:fw_apps_Add 0x149328, 0x14a6f0
fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 0x3003c 0x00000000
fixme:appbar:SHAppBarMessage unknown msg: 4
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETSTATE): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=0): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=1): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=2): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=3): stub
fixme:resource:GetGuiResources (0xffffffff,0): stub
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {6bf52a52-394a-11d3-b153-00c04f79faa6} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {6bf52a52-394a-11d3-b153-00c04f79faa6} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {6bf52a52-394a-11d3-b153-00c04f79faa6} not registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {6bf52a52-394a-11d3-b153-00c04f79faa6} could be created for context 0x17
fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
fixme:advapi:GetCurrentHwProfileW (0x33f3a8)
fixme:win:RegisterDeviceNotificationW (hwnd=0x3003c, filter=0x7c33210,flags=0x00000000) returns a fake device notification handle!
fixme:appbar:SHAppBarMessage unknown msg: 4
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETSTATE): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=0): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=1): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=2): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=3): stub
fixme:appbar:SHAppBarMessage unknown msg: 4
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETSTATE): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=0): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=1): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=2): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=3): stub
fixme:appbar:SHAppBarMessage unknown msg: 4
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETSTATE): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=0): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=1): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=2): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=3): stub
fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
^C
sam@marlin:~>
I then checked in drive_c/users/sam/Application Data/Spotify/ and foound that spotify.exe existed. Clicking on it launched spotify and it seems to work.
So the problem appears to be with wine running the SpotifySetup.exe program - it bombed, but spotify was actually secretly installed. So I will report the behaviour of wine with the installer in WineHQ, but I am relatively happy given that spotify itself appears to be installed and working.
Just on the issue that Henk raised, I have had feedback from moderators previously in this forum about posting problems which are not specifically opensuse problems but are application problems which just happen to exhibit on the opensuse platform, hence my reticence in posting here. Also the issue appears to be a wine issue not a Multimedia issue, so whilst I am happy to post results here, I would just like some consistency from the moderators. After all we are a community!!