The snapcraft.io site: where snap developers and users meetīut as the popularity of snaps grows - some new Linux distros come with the snapd service installed by default - you might be forgiven for wondering how you’re supposed to make them work.

And don’t forget that the real growth of the snap system is in the world of IoT devices and servers rather than desktops. Just consider the growing list of companies that have already bought in and are providing their desktop software through snaps, including Blender, Slack, Spotify, Android Studio, and Microsoft’s (Microsoft!) Visual Studio Code. The secure and portable Linux package management system is more than a geeky tool for showing off your tech creds. You will first need to configure our debian repository: curl -sS | sudo gpg -dearmor -yes -o /etc/apt//spotify.gpg echo 'deb stable non-free' | sudo tee /etc/apt//spotify.Canonical’s Snaps are definitely the real deal.

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. Spotify for Linux is also released as a Debian package. If you run another Linux distribution than Ubuntu, first see for how to install snap, then run the command above. Run the following command in your terminal: snap install spotify If you don’t have access or don’t want to use Ubuntu Software, it is possible to install Spotify from the command line with snap. If the link doesn’t work, open Ubuntu Software and search for Spotify. Go to Spotify in Ubuntu Software and click install. You can tell us what you think and ask other users for help at the Desktop (Linux) board in The Spotify Community forum. The experience may differ from our other Spotify Desktop clients, such as Windows and Mac. They work on it in their spare time and it is currently not a platform that we actively support. Spotify for Linux is a labor of love from our engineers that wanted to listen to Spotify on their Linux development machines.

Here you can find different ways of installing Spotify for Linux.

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