How to Install Spotify in Ubuntu. How to install Spotify Beta 1.0.7 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Derivatives.
Spotify 1.0.7 Beta is currently available only for 64 bit (amd64) Ubuntu, Debian and Derivatives. It means that the support for 32 Bit systems has not been added with the newly released Spotify 1.0.7 Beta.
Spotify is a popular music streaming site and the Spotify client for Linux helps Linux users to use the spotify service.
The latest released version Spotify 1.0.7 Beta brings the following changes:
- Various text/mouse input bugs in current stable release (e.g. client doesn’t give up mouse focus, crash on drag/drop, text input not work on some window managers) have been fixed.
- “Now playing” notifications can be switched off in the settings page
- The WM_CLASS property should be set correctly
Install Spotify Beta on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Spotify Client 1.0.7 beta on Ubuntu systems:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://repository.spotify.com testing non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 94558F59
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install spotify-client
To uninstall and remove spotify client from Ubuntu system, run below command:
sudo apt-get remove spotify-client
The same set of commands will install the spotify-client on Ubuntu derivative systems.
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