Following this official guide, Fedora keeps failing to install Spotify from RPM Fusion. It added me to the pkbuild groups, and I did reboot before attempting the actual install. I’m not a fan of flatpak version nor web version, I want regular package from RPM Fusion that was provided with the official documentation. Please help how to solve this issue, thanks.
Using Fedora 40 KDE Spin.
Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.8-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Memory: 7.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Quadro K620/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: FUJITSU
Product Name: ESPRIMO E510
On many of these third party / non-FOSS applications, I usually recommend installing the Flatpak for them instead. Apps like Spotify, Discord, OBS Studio: they don’t package their own RPMs and instead someone from the community does it. OBS Studio builds their own Flatpak and says that is their official Linux package. It actually works better than when I installed the RPM and tried to get stuff working.
The Spotify Flatpak isn’t built by Spotify, but since all the dependencies are built into it, there’s less moving parts and you’ll have less issues with it.
Thanks for your answer. I agree that Flatpak is a more straightforward approach, but at the same time, I dislike the idea that a single package, which usually takes up to 150MB of space, uses up to 2-3GB with Flatpak. I understand that the libraries are shared, but since this would be my only Flatpak package, allocating so much space for one app is, in my opinion, not the most optimized approach. But it is what it is, I’m gonna think about it, maybe I’ll just stick with the web version then if the RPM Fusion doesn’t work at all (no idea of why it’s even included in the documentation then)
Sorry for the double post, but looking at your error it looks like the package “lab_release” is already installed and the other packages conflict with it. You can try running the install command with the --skip-broken option, but I’d recommend just going with the Flatpak.
it is installed via lpf update and the --skip-broken is not recognized as it is a dnf switch but thanks tho, I think I’m gonna use this negativo repo that Vlad suggested - thanks @vgaetera , it works like a dream - I wish it would be suggested in the official docu, because it seems the RPM Fusion is broken. Marked as solved with negativo repo
Tried to use this, but it’s broken, and I’m lucky enough with lpf-spotify-client that community maintained plus able to use the ongoing repackaging spec
I did a bugreport back then, seems the dev is working on it, though I don’t really get what he means by “TOOL” what kind of tool, like… sigh…:
About the resolving the issue, the license of spotify is not redistributable , so you need a tool that make you download the spotify from spotify site and ask you to accept the license .
By “tool”, they mean any piece of software that will download Spotify and then interactively ask you to accept the license. DNF/rpm do not do interactive installs why is why the “lpf” system is in place (although I haven’t ever used it myself)
but thanks tho, I think I’m gonna use this negativo repo that Vlad suggested - thanks