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. You can remove hold any time from package to allow upgrade again.Here you can find different ways of installing Spotify for Linux. In this tutorial, you have learned to hold packages from unnecessary upgrades. Now, the unhold packages will be upgraded with apt upgrade or unattended upgrades. Using aptitude sudo aptitude unhold package_name.Using dpkg echo 'package_name install' | sudo dpkg -set-selections.Using apt sudo apt-mark unhold package_name.Use one of the following commands to unhold any package. You need to unhold any package before an upgrade.

In future, If you need to upgrade any package set on hold. Use the following command to view all packages already set to hold. You can check the packages on hold anytime. Using aptitude sudo aptitude hold package_nameĬhange the package_name with your actual package name to be set on hold.Using dpkg echo 'package_name hold' | sudo dpkg -set-selections.Using apt sudo apt-mark hold package_name.This will turn off the updates of specified packages from an automatic upgrade or manual upgrades. Use the following command to exclude or hold specific Debian package from an update. How to Exclude Specific Packages from Yum Update.

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