topic Downgrading Spotify for Linux in Desktop (Linux)

Downgrading Spotify for Linux

Lysander666 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:50:36 GMT

Hello,

Yesterday the Spotify client was updated [I'm running Debian stable]. Is there any way to revert to the previous version?

Re: Downgrading Spotify for Linux

bcx — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 12:12:33 GMT

Why would you do that?

It is possible you could find your previously installed spotify-client package on your system.

Run

ls /var/cache/apt/archives/spotify-client_*.deb

to check.

If you find an onder version you want to install, (in my example 1.0.64.401) run

dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/spotify-client_1.0.64.401.g9d720389-21_amd64.deb

to install that older package.

To hold the spotify-client package on a specific version, see https://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-prevent-updating-of-a-specific-package

Re: Downgrading Spotify for Linux

Lysander666 — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 08:51:57 GMT

The new client is a little bit glitchy, but overall it works fine. I just preferred the previous one. I have no previous .deb in

/var/cache/apt/archives/

so I suppose I'll just stick with the new client. I've scoured the internet and no repo seems to have the older version, they've all updated to the new one.

Now that I remember, the older version also had a glitch whereby the second track playthrough of any album would never display a progress bar. But it 's all fine. Thanks for your help.