Fedora 38 To Get Rid Of Its Flathub Filtering, Allowing Many More Apps On Fedora

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UnfilteredFlathub

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It opens the Pandora’s box? :grinning:

Not a fan of the Flathub and Snapd service.

Not in my case either, but in Void for example, I have to use Flatpak to get Spotify and so on other distros.

Somehow they are necessary.

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I don’t use spotify. Have you tried the src pkg from xbps-src?

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Thanks for the info, I haven’t really read it and understand it well, I’ll get to it!

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Isn’t Spotify in the nonfree repos? Have you instslled the nonfree repos?

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The repos I have installed are these:

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Yes, it’s in nonfree repo. Good find.

$ sudo xbps-install -S void-repo-multilib-nonfree void-repo-nonfree
$ sudo xbps-install -Sy
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/x86_64-repodata' ...
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/multilib/nonfree/x86_64-repodata' ...
x86_64-repodata: 9107B [avg rate: 310MB/s]
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/nonfree/x86_64-repodata' ...
x86_64-repodata: 13KB [avg rate: 403MB/s]
$ xbps-query -Rs spotify
[-] mopidy-3.2.0_2                   Music server for MPD, Spotify, SoundClound and others
[-] ncspot-0.11.2_2                  Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client
[-] python3-spotipy-2.22.1_1         Light weight Python library for the Spotify Web API
[-] spotify-adblock-1.0.2_1          Adblocker for Spotify
[-] spotify-adblock-linux-1.1_1      Spotify adblocker for Linux
[-] spotify-qt-3.9_1                 Lightweight Spotify client using Qt
[-] spotify-tui-0.25.0_1             Spotify for the terminal
[-] spotifyd-0.3.4_1                 Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon
[-] libspotify-32bit-12.1.51_2       Spotify library for building your own streaming apps (32bit)
[-] libspotify-devel-32bit-12.1.51_2 Spotify library for building your own streaming apps - development files (32bit)
[-] clementine-spotify-1.4.0rc1_9    Modern music player and library organizer - spotify extension
[-] libspotify-12.1.51_2             Spotify library for building your own streaming apps
[-] libspotify-devel-12.1.51_2       Spotify library for building your own streaming apps - development files
[-] mopidy-spotify-4.0.1_5           Mopidy extension for playing music from Spotify
[-] python3-pyspotify-2.1.3_5        Provides an interface to Spotify music services
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Looks like you have it installed. You should be able to install Spotify.

If you’re used to using reddit, you can search Void’s forum. Getting Spotify to work is a common question.

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Yes, thanks for the info.
It happens that the Spotify that is in Void, by the link that passed me before, is not the original Spotify type gui, are more reflected to the console, at least that is what I particularly estimate.

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They mention a spotify-qt as the gui in the Void reddit forum.

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I’m going to watch it, thank you.

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Download doesn’t look to bad:

[pts/0]-[~]% xbps-query -Rx spotify-qt
glibc>=2.32_1
libgcc>=4.4.0_1
libstdc++>=4.4.0_1
qt5-core>=5.15.2_3
qt5-dbus>=5.15.2_3
qt5-gui>=5.15.2_3
qt5-network>=5.15.2_3
qt5-svg>=0
qt5-widgets>=5.15.2_3

Sometime those qt apps pull in a massive amount of dependencies.

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If as they say on reddit, with a premium account like mine, as well as installing the ID and other things, I tried it a few months ago and it doesn’t work quite as well as the original Spotify platform.

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Fedora will likely give you the option to disable it if you so choose.

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