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Prefer deb package instead of snap #278

Closed farribeiro closed 6 months ago

farribeiro commented 6 months ago

The app have a another way of distribuition... I think it's pertinent to prefer it

Debian / Ubuntu

Spotify for Linux is also released as a Debian package. Our aim is that it should work with the latest Long Term Support release of Ubuntu, but we will try to make it work for other releases of Ubuntu and Debian as well.

You will first need to configure our debian repository:

curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey_6224F9941A8AA6D1.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/spotify.gpg
echo "deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list

Then you can install the Spotify client:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install spotify-client

https://www.spotify.com/en/download/linux/

lionirdeadman commented 6 months ago

IIRC The snap version had more updates which was why it was preferred.

If someone wanted to do this, they should have a look at https://github.com/flathub-infra/flatpak-external-data-checker?tab=readme-ov-file#debian-repo-checker

Erick555 commented 6 months ago

Flatpak source was moved to snap because the deb was unreliable (it was missing releases from time to time). You need to provide arguments for moving it back.

farribeiro commented 6 months ago

Ok... Thanks for the info