Install Spotify for Linux on Slackware 13.37
 

There are new debs available at:

http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify/

(dated 26 Mar 2012)

Being on Slackware64 I used spotify-client_0.8.2.639.g79d339d.504-1_amd64.deb.

First we create a Slackware package from this and install it.

mkdir -p work/pkg
cd work
ar -x /path/to/spotify-client_0.8.2.639.g79d339d.504-1_amd64.deb
cd pkg
tar xvf ../data.tar.gz
Then, as root, you run makepkg in the work/pkg directory:
makepkg -l y -c n /tmp/spotify-client_0.8.2.txz

then cd /tmp as root and

installpkg spotify-client_0.8.2.txz

Next we need a few symbolic links, for these you need to make sure you have the seamonkey-solibs package installed. (I had 2.8 already from doing a full install. If you haven't got it, it's in the 'l' directory):

ln -s /usr/lib64/seamonkey-2.8/libnss3.so /usr/lib64/libnss3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib64/seamonkey-2.8/libnssutil3.so /usr/lib64/libnssutil3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib64/seamonkey-2.8/libsmime3.so /usr/lib64/libsmime3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib64/seamonkey-2.8/libplc4.so /usr/lib64/libplc4.so.0d
ln -s /usr/lib64/seamonkey-2.8/libnspr4.so /usr/lib64/libnspr4.so.0d

(I assume, as I haven't tried, that if you are not on Slackware64 then you can simply replace 'lib64' with a plain 'lib' in the above).

We now need GCONf which is available at Slackbuilds.org (and ORBit2 as a dependency, also available on Slackbuilds):

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...raries/ORBit2/
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...braries/GConf/

and that should be it.

A quick

$ spotify

in a terminal and you're good to go.

Thank you! It works quite well. :)

It always angers me, that closed source maintainers always try to force you to use Ewbuntu.

Good one! Like it! Thanks.
:)

Woow! Great job rkfb!

Nice! Deff trying this out!

EDIT: I can verify this works on 32bit systems.

But it sometimes crashes with this error:

I've not had it crash at all but I have had trouble with the window not quite staying in place on the screen, it seems to be in a slightly different place every time I revisit the desktop it's on (even with dimensions/position set). And it doesn't seem to want to maximise. But that maybe something to do with fluxbox. On KDE it maximises but doesn't restore very well.

From erik @ #slackware :
should be:

and so forth for the rest of the symlinks..

That way, dependencies will not brake when seamonkey is upgraded - which has happened to me twice in the last month..

## edit: added handle to the person in #slackware who contributed with this.

Thank you for that houzi, there doesn't seem to be any way to change it I'm afraid, I thought there would be an edit button but there isn't.

If anyone's getting segmentation faults with Spotify starting up lately I'm not sure that there's a fix for it just yet but it does seem to be resolved if you delete your .cache/spotify directory before you run 'spotify'.

I've found it easier for now to start the application from a script:

hth,

Local files will not play
 

Has anyone been-able to get local files to play? I compiled and installed ffmpeg thinking that would provide the correct libavcodecs but still not able to get local files to play.

Hello:

I just want to say that I am using: and the thing compiles without problems, and start without problems, but (yes, always is one 'but') the thing do not show anything in the sections: "Discover" , "Follow, "Messages", and other ones, but I make what was suggested in the first post (just the symbolic links, cause Slackware 14.1 comes with GCONF and I do not install Orbit but is working) and fix everything.

Thanks, I hope this post is not useless.

install Spotify on Slackware 14.2+
 

I'm using slackware 14.2+
below text is from my ~/Lessons/spotify.txt installation log file.
May 12 2019
http://repository.spotify.com/pool/n...31-1_amd64.deb
downloaded to ~/Downloads
I used deb2tgz .Results are in ~/Downloads/work
Slackware package /home/wayne/Downloads/work/spotify-client-0.9.17_0.9.17.8.gd06432d.31-1_amd64.tgz created.
bash-5.0$ sudo /sbin/installpkg spotify-client-0.9.17_0.9.17.8.gd06432d.31-1_amd64.tgz
installpkg spotify-client_0.8.2.txz

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/seamonkey/libnss3.so /usr/lib64/libnss3.so.1d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/seamonkey/libnssutil3.so /usr/lib64/libnssutil3.so.1d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/seamonkey/libsmime3.so /usr/lib64/libsmime3.so.1d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/seamonkey/libplc4.so /usr/lib64/libplc4.so.0d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/seamonkey/libnspr4.so /usr/lib64/libnspr4.so.0d

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...raries/ORBit2/ .. used sbopkg to install this
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...braries/GConf/ .. already installed

bash-5.0$ spotify
spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
used sbopkg to install libgcrypt

seems to work fine except for not playing my local files.

I don't understand, why bump a seven year old solved topic with a post on how to install Spotify on -current, and version 0.9.17 as well?

For -current, I personally use the binary of 1.0.59 from Slackonly [which is also out of date, but at least it's less out of date].

FWIW I updated it to (the little less out of date) 1.0.89 in the unofficial repo for current as a one-time-only thing (reasons are in the git commit message).