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How to Install Spotify Client in Ubuntu 15.10

Last updated: March 10, 2016

Spotify Client for Linux

Quick tutorial shows you how to install Spotify client, stable or development version, in Ubuntu 15.10 and fix the app does not launch issue.

The spotify community provides an official repository for Linux to make the installation easy. Both stable and latest dev releases are available.

1. Open terminal from the Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key. When it opens, select add the stable or test repository:

  • add Spotify stable repository via command: 
    echo deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
  • or add the test repository for development version: 
    echo deb http://repository.spotify.com testing non-free | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list

2. Run command to get the signing key to be able to verify downloaded packages:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys D2C19886

3. Finally install the client via Synaptic Package Manager or by running below commands one by one:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install spotify-client

Tip: The current stable release was built against Ubuntu 14.04. It does not launch in Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 15.10 without the library libgcrypt.so.11.

To fix it, just select download the package from the link below and click to install via Software Center.

libgcrypt11 for 64-bit | libgcrypt11 for 32-bit

That’s it. Enjoy!

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    14 responses to How to Install Spotify Client in Ubuntu 15.10

    1. Jelle De Loecker October 18, 2015 at 2:22 pm

      Local files won’t play, though. Even using the old workarounds by linking specific libraries and such.

    2. micha October 18, 2015 at 4:11 pm

      Thanks Ji, worked fine for me.

    3. MEHRAN October 23, 2015 at 12:54 am

      Thanks for libraries :)

    4. Uriel October 23, 2015 at 4:06 am

      It works, thanks dude!

    5. Jon Z October 23, 2015 at 3:04 pm

      Hey, thanks for the article. It was very helpful. Yet, I didn’t get any launcher icon and can only launch spotify via the terminal. Any suggestions? Just started using Ubuntu here. I guess that makes me a Noobuntu xD

    6. LayneTrain October 28, 2015 at 9:24 pm

      Thank you!
      It did not work until I installed “libgcrypt11 for 64-bit”

    7. Alexandre November 17, 2015 at 7:42 pm

      Hello all !

      I’m starting with ubuntu and i’d like to install spotify. I’ve followed all the detailed procedure (including the crypt package butn nothing happens, and the package manager can not find spotify). Any idea of the cause of the problem ? Probably basic but I can’t find.

      Thanks for your help,

      Alex

    8. Carlos November 20, 2015 at 12:28 am

      Thanks, Jim. Worked fine!

    9. Mattse November 22, 2015 at 12:27 am

      Thank you,
      the problem is fixed now.

    10. Kuz November 22, 2015 at 8:56 pm

      Hi there,
      I followed all the steps but I get this message in return:

      kuz@kuz-GS395AA-ABZ-a6280-it:~$ sudo apt-get install spotify-client
      Lettura elenco dei pacchetti… Fatto
      Generazione albero delle dipendenze
      Lettura informazioni sullo stato… Fatto
      Alcuni pacchetti non possono essere installati. Questo può voler dire
      che è stata richiesta una situazione impossibile oppure, se si sta
      usando una distribuzione in sviluppo, che alcuni pacchetti richiesti
      non sono ancora stati creati o sono stati rimossi da Incoming.
      Le seguenti informazioni possono aiutare a risolvere la situazione:

      I seguenti pacchetti hanno dipendenze non soddisfatte:
      spotify-client : Dipende: libssl0.9.8 ma non è installabile
      Raccomanda: libavcodec53 ma non è installabile oppure
      libavcodec52 ma non è installabile oppure
      libavcodec-extra-53 ma non è installabile oppure
      libavcodec-extra-52 ma non è installabile
      Raccomanda: libavformat53 ma non è installabile oppure
      libavformat52 ma non è installabile oppure
      libavformat-extra-53 ma non è installabile oppure
      libavformat-extra-52 ma non è installabile
      E: Impossibile correggere i problemi, ci sono pacchetti danneggiati bloccati.

      It’s a clean 15.10 install from like three days ago so I doubt it’s somehow compromised, any chance you can suggest how to fix this?

      • Ji m November 23, 2015 at 12:30 pm

        If you were installing Spotify from the stable repository, please try the DEV version since the current stable was build against Ubuntu 14.04.

        To do so, launch Software & Updates and navigate to Other Software tab. Find out the stable repository and change its Distro to “testing” (without quotes)

        Finally run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install spotify-client command to install the DEV version.

        • Kuz November 25, 2015 at 7:33 pm

          Thank you so much, man! It worked!

          I’d suggest to slightly update the article though, because it’s not clear that the stable version won’t actually run on 15.10 even if the title is about that.

          Thanks again anyway and keep up with the good work!

      • Martin S January 28, 2016 at 9:52 pm

        Kuz https://packages.debian.org/sv/squeeze/i386/libssl0.9.8/download install that one and you can install spotify

    11. Carlos December 29, 2015 at 10:37 pm

      Thanks so much Ji m, works great for me on ubuntu 15.10, please keep your great work!!!