Installing Spotify on Ubuntu

Not going to lie, music is a key part of my workflow these days and Spotify was a key player in that. I’m happy to say that they have a client for linux now and the setup is pretty straight forward.

1. Go to Software and Updates again
2. Go to the Other Software tab and click “Add Source”
3. deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free and then click Add
4. Open a terminal window.
5. sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59
6. sudo apt-get update
7. sudo apt-get install spotify-client
8. You can now run spotify from the command line and then lock it to your toolbar. It’ll add a thing to your sound menu icon and it’s own menu icon so let’s get rid of the extra one. Unless you like the little green icon, but it’s really just extra considering you can control Spotify through the sound toolbar piece.
9. wget http://raw.github.com/ozcanesen/spotify-indicator/master/spotify -O /tmp/spotify
10. sudo cp /tmp/spotify /etc/apparmor.d/
11. sudo service apparmor reload
12. Run Spotify from your command line or the Unity application search.