Spotify in Fedora 11
Me, and many with me, have reported problems with getting Spotify to run under Wine in Fedora 11. The support pages at the Spotify-website describe how to install and run it if you’re using Ubuntu, but - surprise, surprise - not every Linux-user uses Ubuntu. Well, I think I solved it and it wasn’t all that complicated either.
More and more computers are running a 64-bit OS and especially Linux-users have very widely adopted the x64-platform. However, the problem with running Spotify in Wine in Fedora 11 seem to be specific to the 64-bit version of Wine. So what I did was simply remove every trace of 64-bit Wine and installed the 32-bit version instead along with ALSA-support for Wine (I read somewhere that the Pulseaudio-drivers for Wine don’t play along with Spotify), like this:
$ sudo yum install wine.i586 wine-alsa.i586
Then I ran winecfg and selected the ALSA-driver for the audio and ran the Spotify-installer for 32-bit Windows.
$ winecfg (configure audio...) $ wine ~/Download/Spotify\ Installer.exe
That’s it! Now I’m rocking the latest Slayer-album in Spotify on my Fedora-laptop. Very nice!
