How to Install Spotio On Ubuntu 16.04

Last weekwe mentioned ― akadrooled over ― Spotio ,a Rdio-inspired light theme for the Spotify desktop app was planningto add support for linux.

Today I’m happy to report that it does support Linux.

I’m going to skip over the “whys” of Spotio in this post as we covered it in the previous one (and tbh the short answer is simple “because”).

To install Spotio on Ubuntu 16.04 you’ll need to roll up your sleeves up, but the Spotio developers have this as simple as possible.

First, download the latest Spotio releasefrom Github:

Download Spotio From Github

When fully downloaded you will need to unzip thearchive. Do this by opening your Downloads folder (assuming that’s where you downloaded it to), right-click on the ‘spotio-master.zip’,select the‘Extract Here’ open from the right-click menu, and let File Rollerdo its thing.

Next you’ll need to run the setup-linux.sh script that’s inside the newly extracted folder. This is best done using the Terminal, so open one up by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T .

Enter the following command to ‘enter’ the download folder:

And this command to run the set-up script:

The script will do a number of things, including downloading the latest Spotify for Linux release, unpacking it, replacing its theme/skin assets, and repacking it all into a new installer.

Once complete run:

sudo dpkg -i spotio.deb