Spotify: how to easily install it on Ubuntu

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If you consider yourself a music lover and absolute fan of the Swedish streaming music platform, then you should know how to install the official Spotify client in your Ubuntu distribution. Of course, this tutorial can also be used for other Ubuntu or Debian based distros. And, as you will see, it is very simple, explained step by step.

easy access to million songs from all styles and artists you can imagine, and even podcast consumers. The most popular music service that has already captivated hundreds of millions of people around the world. Also, you should know that it can be used both for free, with ads, and by subscription, to make you premium and have a number of privileges.

As for the steps to install the Spotify client app On DEB-based systems, the steps you need to follow are:

  • The first is add official Spotify repository to your repos, to do this, run the following commands, the first to import the key and the second to add the repo:
curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey_5E3C45D7B312C643.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
  • Now you can install the Spotify client app from the repositories with this other command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install spotify-client

Once this is done, you can go to the application launcher of your Ubuntu (or the distro you are on), and you can search for Spotify. You will see that the icon of the popular music service on demand appears. You can anchor it to the bar if you want.

Remember that the first time you run it it will ask for your credentials if you already have a Spotify account, if not, you can register at that time. Once this is done, you will be able to access your music library that you already had configured on other devices, since it is in the cloud...


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