{"id":7378,"date":"2017-12-21T14:21:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T14:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7378"},"modified":"2017-12-21T14:21:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T14:21:39","slug":"install-spotify-snap-ubuntu-16-04-17-10-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/install-spotify-snap-ubuntu-16-04-17-10-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Spotify Easily via Snap in Ubuntu 16.04, 17.10 &#038; Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/spotify_icon.png\" alt=\"Spotify\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5309\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Installing Spotify desktop client in Ubuntu now is quite easy via the Snap universal binary package.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A snap is an universal Linux application with all its dependencies bundled. It runs in sandbox and is isolated from other system software.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify has an <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/spotify-client-1-x-goes-stable\/\" target=\"_blank\">official apt repository contains traditional .deb packages for Ubuntu.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now the snap of Spotify client is available, and you can simply search for and install it in Ubuntu Software:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/spotify-ubuntu-software-450x318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"318\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/spotify-ubuntu-software-450x318.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/spotify-ubuntu-software-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/spotify-ubuntu-software-600x423.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/spotify-ubuntu-software.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t want to login with Ubuntu One account, open terminal (<b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b>) and install the snap via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">snap install spotify<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/spotify-snap-600x83.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"83\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/spotify-snap-600x83.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/spotify-snap-450x63.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/spotify-snap.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The snap co-exists with traditional Spotify .deb package. You can either launch it from application launcher or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">\/snap\/bin\/spotify<\/pre>\n<p>For any snap issue, you may refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.snapcraft.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">forum.snapcraft.io<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove Spotify snap package, either use Ubuntu Software or run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo snap remove spotify<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing Spotify desktop client in Ubuntu now is quite easy via the Snap universal binary package. A snap is an universal Linux application with all its dependencies bundled. It runs in sandbox and is isolated from other system software. Spotify has an official apt repository contains traditional .deb packages for Ubuntu. Now the snap of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[261,698],"class_list":["post-7378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-spotify","tag-spotify-client"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}