Hi! Hope this is the right section. I’m trying to install Spotify, and both “yay spotify” and “yay spotify-dev” seem to halt on “Parsing SRCINFO” indefinitely. I let it run for about half an hour a couple of days ago with no change or apparent progress. Not sure if there’s a connection, but I’d previously been unable to install it due to some sort of issue with the PGP key server.
$ yay spotify-dev
1 aur/spotify-dev 1.1.26.501-1 (+16 3.26)
A proprietary music streaming service
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 1
:: Checking for conflicts...
:: Checking for inner conflicts...
[Repo:1] libcurl-gnutls-7.71.1-1
[Aur:1] spotify-dev-1.1.26.501-1
:: Downloaded PKGBUILD (1/1): spotify-dev
1 spotify-dev (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> n
:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: spotify-dev
And there it stays until I eventually close the window.
@Zos - there are issues with the pgp keys for the spotify package. I had to follow some of the manual process in the comments section of the AUR page here AUR Spotify Page
Once I got the keys sorted out, I went back and did the simple yay spotify and it installed without issue.
Didn’t work, gave me a read error for .gnupg/gpg.conf in the home directory. Tried taking a look at the file in question, and it turned out that gpg.conf was a folder instead of a text file. Not sure how that happened, but I tried copying the gpg.conf from etc/pacman.d/gnupg into the appropriate place in the home directory, then ran the command again. It appeared to work, so I tried “yay spotify” again. It worked! As far as I can tell, Spotify is now running properly. Thanks for the help!
No … i use it all the time to install spotify because i get tired of the licence keys never working and then i can’t install it. When the keys are working it’s okay but when they don’t you can’t install without updating the keys which don’t always work either. I have been doing it this way and i have no issue with it.
Well put it this way. I don’t really care that spotify gets updated as much as being able to install it. If i can’t install it then it doesn’t get updated anyway. The problem is the keys are always changing and they don’t seem to get updated.
Edit: I usually always install vlc, rhythmbox and spotify as well as lollypop!
If you don’t have a data cap, I recommend going into Spotify’s settings and set the music quality to “Very High”. Otherwise, Spotify will sound terrible.
The recurring installation issues that seems to happen a few times per year is the main reason I this time actually installed the flatpak version of Spotify instead.
I’m having the same problem in January 2023, Spotify was already installed but the last update can’t complete, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, enter the command curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey_5E3C45D7B312C643.gpg | gpg --import - from the comments at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify but installation still fails.
yay -S spotify
:: Checking for conflicts…
:: Checking for inner conflicts…
[Aur:1] spotify-1:1.1.84.716-6
1 spotify (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==>
:: PKGBUILD up to date, Skipping (1/0): spotify
1 spotify (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==>
:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: spotify
:: PGP keys need importing:
→ E27409F51D1B66337F2D2F417A3A762FAFD4A51F, required by: spotify
:: Import? [Y/n] Y
:: Importing keys with gpg…
gpg: key 7A3A762FAFD4A51F: no user ID
gpg: Total number processed: 1
→ problem importing keys
There is now but if you couldn’t install it before you just bypass it and don’t worry about it. It will get updated when there is a new key or someone updates the AUR package!
It will get updated when there is a new key or someone updates the AUR package!