Hey,
has anybody run Spotify on his/her opensuse tumbleweed instance? I have tried snap, Webbrowser and spotify-installer from PackMan repository. Nothing works on my tumbleweed instance.
Thanks in advance
Björn
I use SpotiWeb
https://github.com/tomasmcm/SpotiWeb
Extracted to a Home folder named SpotiWeb and created a desktop link to the SpotiWeb app.
I tried snap but it appears the tumbleweed snap system is out of date.
Thanks, works great.
Thanks to the Developer, not me.
I was previously running spotify installed via the spotify-installer RPM from packman. I noticed this spotify was an older version.
Today I tried first with installing snapd and then spotify via snap after starting the snapd deamon.
It failed to start
djviking@machine:~> snap run spotify
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
djviking@machine:~> [0124/194822.724973:ERROR:gl_context_glx.cc(186)] Failed to create GL context with glXCreateContextAttribsARB.
[0124/194822.725004:ERROR:gpu_info_collector.cc(51)] gl::init::CreateGLContext failed
[0124/194822.725008:ERROR:gpu_info_collector.cc(119)] Could not create context for info collection.
[0124/194822.725017:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(96)] gpu::CollectGraphicsInfo failed (fatal).
I then decided to try the suggested spotify-easyrpm which after install started spotify without any problems.
Though this version of spotify has far less output than the previous v0.9, it did have one ERROR:
/usr/share/spotify/spotify: /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /usr/share/spotify/spotify)
/proc/self/exe: /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /proc/self/exe)
[0124/194023.332344:ERROR:web_plugin_impl.cc(38)] Widevine registration is not supported after context initialization
There seems to be an error within the installation files themselves. It is an error that is being felt across multiple systems - Linux and Windows. I’m not sure about Mac. What I’m saying is, this is not isolated to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
I also tried installing on OpenSUSE 42.2 and was met with the same issues.
My Windows is having problems with installing the latest version as well. The installer just runs, and runs, and runs. On those computers, it’s the latest version of 10 home and 10 pro depending on the PC.
Trust me, the solution has to come from Spotify fixing the packages.
That being said, you may get lucky and be able to install through WINE, but I doubt it because there’s a problem with the spotify.exe package in addition to the .deb file package. Spotify-Installer creates the .rpm from the .deb file.
Look into WINE. It might help, it might not. WINE allows windows exe files to be installed and run on Linux systems. There is a repo link on the same page where you find packman on the opensuse site.
Yes, I do. Spotify installed in the application launcher and may be in invoked as an other program.
erlangen:~ # zypper if spotify*
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for package spotify-installer:
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Repository : Packman
Name : spotify-installer
Version : 0.9.17.8.gd06432d.31-5.9
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : http://packman.links2linux.de
Installed Size : 20.6 KiB
Installed : Yes
Status : up-to-date
Source package : spotify-installer-0.9.17.8.gd06432d.31-5.9.src
Summary : Installer for Spotify desktop client
Description :
This is an automatic installer for the Spotify desktop client for
Linux, which circumvents the redistribution restrictions on the client
by:
- downloading the .deb from spotify.com
- installing required dependencies
- building an rpm
- installing the rpm
The process is intended to be as user-friendly as possible.
Information for package spotify-client:
---------------------------------------
Repository : myrepo
Name : spotify-client
Version : 0.9.17.8.gd06432d.31-1
Arch : x86_64
Vendor :
Installed Size : 136.4 MiB
Installed : Yes
Status : up-to-date
Source package : spotify-client-0.9.17.8.gd06432d.31-1.nosrc
Summary : Desktop client for Spotify streaming music service
Description :
Spotify is a "Freemium" proprietary, DRM-restricted digital music
service that gives you access to millions of songs.
It includes the following features:
- Custom playlists
- Last.fm integration
- Customized radio dynamically generated to the user's tastes
- Social media integration with Facebook and Twitter
- 3rd-party applications integrated into the client
erlangen:~ #
I’ve found the best way to get Spotify running is to just use the flatpak provided on flathub.
All you need is to run
zypper in flatpak
then to install Spotify, just navigate to the Download folder and run
flatpak install com.spotify.Client.flatpakref
And voila - a perfectly running containerised Spotify client.
The snap package works now.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-spotify-application-on-linux/