Installation Issue - Ubuntu

[hollow smelt]

I've tried editing the permissions via GUI and CMD, it didn't work. Then, I realized the spicetify.tar.gz file it's attempting to access doesn't even exist.

[undone summit]

lol why are you using curl with sudo

why are you using sudo at all even

[hollow smelt]

It said it didn't have permission so I just tried running it with sudo

[undone summit]

💀

[hollow smelt]

It wasn't working, even with a permission change

So, 🤷

[undone summit]

remove the install.sh file from your home dir

since you used sudo with curl

you prob gonna need to remove it with sudo also

[hollow smelt]

I don't have an install.sh file in my home directory

[undone summit]

remove the .spicetify dir also

[hollow smelt]

Okay

Done

Now what?

[undone summit]

now try the script again

[hollow smelt]

Okay

I'll run it without sudo this time lol

My bad

I don't have much experience with curl

[undone summit]

it's fine

[hollow smelt]

Same error

[undone summit]

Can you try downloading the tarball yourself and extract it then

[hollow smelt]

Sure

I actually already downloaded it earlier, had a feeling I was gonna need it

Okay, I extracted it

I'm assuming you wanted me to extract it into the .spicetify directory?

[undone summit]

yeah

[hollow smelt]

Okay

Now what?

Try running the command again?

[undone summit]

look around your home dir and find either bashrc or bash_profile

[hollow smelt]

Okay

[undone summit]

add these lines at the bottom of it

export SPICETIFY_INSTALL=$HOME/.spicetify
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.spicetify

I can't remember if it was with quotes or without tho

replace $HOME with your home dir path

[hollow smelt]

Is this good?

[undone summit]

that should be fine, if the shell breaks just try it without the quotes

[hollow smelt]

Okay

So do I just run the curl command again?

[undone summit]

wait remove the quote here

[hollow smelt]

Okay

[undone summit]

nah

you just installed spicetify manually

[hollow smelt]

Oh

Okay

Let me see if it worked

[undone summit]

wait I forgot

you're using Linux?

[hollow smelt]

Wait duh

Lol

[hollow smelt]

Ubuntu

Yes

[undone summit]

yeah there's an off-chance Spicetify might break your Spotify client

[hollow smelt]

Why?

[undone summit]

since the Linux version is severly outdated

like half a year behind

might or might not work

if you want to be sure then download the v2.9.9 tarball

and install that one

[hollow smelt]

Okay

Let me just see if it works first, lol

[undone summit]

run spicetify and see

restart your terminal session first if you haven't after saving the profile file

[hollow smelt]

Btw, here's what ended up working for me

The version without quotes

[undone summit]

oh yeah without the quotes then

ayt cool

[hollow smelt]

Sure thing

[hollow smelt]

Seems good 👍

[undone summit]

ayt cool

[hollow smelt]

It's not active when I open spotify

[undone summit]

now run spicetify backup apply

[hollow smelt]

Lemme apply rq

[undone summit]

we're not done tho lmao

[hollow smelt]

Yeah lol

[hollow smelt]

Oh, I already ran that

https://tenor.com/view/kekw-twitch-twitchtv-twitch-emote-kek-gif-19085736

[undone summit]

oh lol

just to be sure, you're using the APT version for Spotify right?

[hollow smelt]

Mhm

I had the Snap version originally, but I switched to the APT version

Since I know Snap doesn't like giving permissions lol

[undone summit]

It might complain about missing permissions when running backup

if so run these

[hollow smelt]

Let me check

[undone summit]

sudo chmod a+wr /usr/share/spotify
sudo chmod a+wr /usr/share/spotify/Apps -R

[hollow smelt]

Nope, worked fine

[undone summit]

that's weird

the client is applied yes?

[hollow smelt]

It's because I've run them before

[hollow smelt]

Applying rn

Andd done

Lemme check

[undone summit]

click on your profile and you should see options like Sidebar config

that means its working

[hollow smelt]

👍

Ik

[undone summit]

ye cool

[hollow smelt]

Downloading the marketplace rn

I really wish Spotify closing to tray worked on Linux

[undone summit]

real

[hollow smelt]

😬

[undone summit]

I had to use a github project for that before iirc

just to get the icon on sidebar

[hollow smelt]

Yeh, still not fixed

[undone summit]

and hide the client

works pretty well I think

but I haven't used linux in more than a year forgot what it was

[hollow smelt]

I'm still having the same issue before when running the curl command to download Marketplace

Know where I can download the file directly?

[undone summit]

I think curl is just borked on your system lol

hang on

[hollow smelt]

I think I found it

[undone summit]

https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-marketplace/wiki/Installation#manual-install-recommended

follow this

[hollow smelt]

Okay, thanks

[hollow smelt]

I downloaded the .zip and put the extracted folder in CustomApps as marketplace

No marketplace tab in Spotify, though

[undone summit]

did this?

[hollow smelt]

Yeah, I just saw that lol

Lemme check if it worked

It worked! 👍

Everything seems fine now, thanks!

[undone summit]

might wanna do this also

if you're gonna install themes via Marketplace

[hollow smelt]

Yup

Already did

[undone summit]

ayt cool

[undone summit]

yw

[hollow smelt]

I'll keep this open for now just in case I run into any further issues

[brisk crow]

Linux really sucks 😂

[tired finch]

with quotes is good practice, and on most modern linux distros the global variable $HOME exists and should expand by itself

[tired finch]

the one in the ubuntu repos are outdated, the flatpak client is more recent

[tired finch]

This was an odd case, just like all windows bsods are odd cases, if linux sucks or not is only a decision that can be made after using a distro that has your needs in mind

[hollow smelt]

Not really

[hollow smelt]

It broke with quotes

[hollow smelt]

Good to know

[hollow smelt]

Agreed