Spotify is a cross-platform (available for Ubuntu, macOS, and Windows) proprietary music streaming service. It is a freemium product, that is, a free version of it is available, but it has advertisements. To use it without advertisements one needs to pay for Spotify Premium.
Installation
While it is not officially supported on Fedora or any other RPM-based distributions it is possible to get it to work on Fedora. There are two main ways of installing it:
- Using the officially-supported Snap method.
- Using a Flatpak hosted by FlatHub.
- Using unofficial repositories like the negativo17 repository or the RPM Fusion repository.
Snap
To install Spotify using Snap enter the following commands in Terminal:
sudo dnf install snapd sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap snap install spotify
Please consult Snapcraft for more information on that repository and Snaps.
Flatpak
To install Spotify using Flatpak enter the following command in Terminal:
flatpak install --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.spotify.Client.flatpakref
Please consult FlatHub for more information on that repository and Flatpaks.
Negativo17.org repository
This repository also contains the following packages features:
- Required libraries for enabling local files playback and file upload to personal playlists
- Firewalld rules for enabling local service discovery and Spotify Connect (control other devices & output location)
Installation for Fedora:
dnf config-manager --add-repo=http://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-spotify.repo dnf install spotify
Installation for CentOS/RHEL 7+:
yum-config-manager --add-repo=http://negativo17.org/repos/epel-spotify.repo yum install spotify
Please consult Negativo17.org for more information on that repository.
RPMFusion repository
Installation for Fedora:
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm sudo dnf install lpf-spotify-client lpf-gui
Installation for CentOS/RHEL 7+:
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-7.noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-7.noarch.rpm sudo yum install lpf-spotify-client lpf-gui
Please consult RPM Fusion for more information on that repository.