Many users experience this error while loading spotify on old CPUs:
[1] 76568 illegal hardware instruction (core dumped) spotify
It looks like the new UI uses AVX instructions, if your CPU has no AVX extension, spotify will likely fail to start. The latest version of spotify that can run on non-AVX CPUs is 1.2.45.454-gc16ec9f6.
You can build yourself this outdated but still working perfectly non-AVX spotify version by following these instructions:
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Download the AUR spotify git package revision corresponding to the former published
1.2.45.454version: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=spotify&id=86a7174b6f92a794e5d2a4abd5d191734eb0c71d -
Modify the PKGBUILD to this content:
# Maintainer: Christian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu>
# Maintainer: Robin Candau <antiz@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: NicoHood <archlinux {cat} nicohood {dog} de>
# Contributor: TobFromme < TobFromme {hat} pm {dont} me >
# Contributor: Ashley Whetter <(firstname) @ awhetter.co.uk>
# Contributor: Eothred <yngve.levinsen@gmail.com>
pkgname=spotify
pkgver='1.2.45.454'
epoch=1
_commit=gc16ec9f6
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='A proprietary music streaming service'
arch=('x86_64')
license=('custom')
url='https://www.spotify.com'
depends=('alsa-lib>=1.0.14' 'gtk3' 'libxss' 'desktop-file-utils' 'openssl' 'nss' 'at-spi2-atk' 'libcurl-gnutls' 'libsm' 'libayatana-appindicator')
optdepends=('ffmpeg4.4: Adds support for playback of local files'
'zenity: Adds support for importing local files'
'libnotify: Desktop notifications')
options=('!strip')
# NOTE: We switched from stable to testing on 18th march, as the spotify
# stable repository is always outdated. Testing seems to be in sync with snap:
# https://snapcraft.io/spotify
# http://repository.spotify.com/dists/testing/Release
# http://repository.spotify.com/dists/testing/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages
# http://repository.spotify.com/dists/testing/Release.gpg
source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${_commit}-x86_64.deb"
"spotify.sh"
"spotify.protocol"
"LICENSE")
sha512sums=('4396ac2c05cbf4b64e57d4ace40967c6d14061471597d1884d6b8420587f0f3689038a35534bb0b4c75e9f01675246e2c36261048880c677a8897caa60b7a8c9'
'da48b628a4ea925dd8521133ebf364b261b11aed252d264dde6605d915cdb631919ffe672c58534bcdb60869e5d87a49a60a8198780b99517123f0031e83fdb1'
'999abe46766a4101e27477f5c9f69394a4bb5c097e2e048ec2c6cb93dfa1743eb436bde3768af6ba1b90eaac78ea8589d82e621f9cbe7d9ab3f41acee6e8ca20'
'2e16f7c7b09e9ecefaa11ab38eb7a792c62ae6f33d95ab1ff46d68995316324d8c5287b0d9ce142d1cf15158e61f594e930260abb8155467af8bc25779960615')
# Import key with:
# curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey_6224F9941A8AA6D1.gpg | gpg --import -
validpgpkeys=('63CBEEC9006602088F9B19326224F9941A8AA6D1') # Spotify Public Repository Signing Key <tux@spotify.com>
# Old Keys:
# E27409F51D1B66337F2D2F417A3A762FAFD4A51F
# F9A211976ED662F00E59361E5E3C45D7B312C643
# 8FD3D9A8D3800305A9FFF259D1742AD60D811D58
# 931FF8E79F0876134EDDBDCCA87FF9DF48BF1C90
# 2EBF997C15BDA244B6EBF5D84773BD5E130D1D45
package() {
tar -xzf data.tar.gz --no-same-owner -C "${pkgdir}"
# Enable spotify to open URLs from the webapp
sed -i 's/^Exec=.*/Exec=spotify --uri=%U/' "${pkgdir}/usr/share/spotify/spotify.desktop"
install -Dm 644 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/spotify/spotify.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop"
install -Dm 644 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/spotify/icons/spotify-linux-512.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/spotify-client.png"
for size in 22 24 32 48 64 128 256 512; do
install -Dm 644 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/spotify/icons/spotify-linux-${size}.png" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps/spotify.png"
done
# Move spotify binary to its proper location
mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/opt/spotify"
mv "${pkgdir}/usr/share/spotify" "${pkgdir}/opt/"
# Copy launch script which allows the use of custom flags
install -Dm 755 spotify.sh "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/spotify"
# Copy protocol file for KDE
install -Dm 644 spotify.protocol "${pkgdir}/usr/share/kservices5/spotify.protocol"
# Install license
# https://www.spotify.com/legal/end-user-agreement
install -Dm 644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
# Fix permissions
chmod -R go-w "${pkgdir}"
}
Pinned Comments
gromit commented on 2024-01-24 14:22 (UTC) (edited on 2024-02-22 23:00 (UTC) by gromit)
Please make sure to import the correct GPG key first:
And always build in a clean chroot. It is as easy as:
It is expected that the package will break now and then, as spotify continuously changes download binaries, gpg keys etc (which is not appropriate, but we cannot change this). Please be patient if an update does not occur the next day, you can still use an existing spotify install or update the version yourself.
Antiz commented on 2023-09-13 13:21 (UTC)
@lightofpast Just pushed
v1:1.2.20.1210-2that now allows you to set custom launch flags in aspotify-flags.conffile under$XDG_CONFIG_HOMEor~/.config:)