How to Installation of Spotify client on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Linux

This short config will show you how to install Spotify client on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Linux. Let's start by adding a spotify repository:

echo 'deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free' >> /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 13B00F1FD2C19886

apt-get update

In case you receive an error message about missing key replace the above key with the one provided in your error message. Install spotify using apt-get command as shown below:

# apt-get install spotify-client

Once the installation is finished run spotify from terminal to catch any possible error:

$ spotify

 Troubleshooting

Install libpangoxft-1.0-0 package in case you receive below the error message:

spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory