topic Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux in Desktop (Linux)

The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

topyli — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:27:53 GMT

Running Debian testing/sid (stretch), spotify-client from Spotify's testing repository no longer works.

spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Looks like a recurring theme, as we have just recently survived the libssl0.9.8 to 1.0.0 transition, but we're going to have to enjoy 1.0.2. I doubt Debian will be easily persuated to stop upgrading their security related libraries so that we can run our favorite non-free software. Someone else will have to be flexible here 🙂

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

DanielJCosta — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 11:34:14 GMT

Even with ln -s from the new library this problem persists.

Any news about this???

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

jenwe — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:08:40 GMT

Same Problem here, clean install of Debian testing.

Just download & install the 1.0.0 version (https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libssl1.0.0) and it should work.

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

AzP — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:14:45 GMT

This is what I'm seeing on Gentoo... It would be nice if Spotify updated their libraries to something fairly modern, just to keep in sync with Linux distributions.

peter@skare ~ $ spotify
/opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify: /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify)
/opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify: /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify)
/opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify: /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found (required by /opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify)

This is my Spotify package information:

[I] media-sound/spotify
     Available versions:  1.0.27^ms {gnome pax_kernel pulseaudio}
     Installed versions:  1.0.27^ms(14:27:35 2016-04-23)(gnome pulseaudio -pax_kernel)
     Homepage:            https://www.spotify.com/ch-de/download/previews/
     Description:         Spotify is a social music platform

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

Gryzly — Wed, 04 May 2016 07:48:49 GMT

It's working. Thanks a lot.

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

matino — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:53:59 GMT

> Just download & install the 1.0.0 version (https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libssl1.0.0) and it should work.

This may work but it's not a recommended way, since you're downgrading to a version with security issues.

I'd rather expect a fix from the spotify team instead.

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

camgaertner — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 05:26:24 GMT

agreed, don't really want to subject my machine to known exploits just to use spotify...

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

QuartzStar — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 06:27:29 GMT

I am using Kali and it works for me.

download:

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.0.0_1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb

run this on your terminal:

dpkg -i libssl1.0.0_1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

bulaka — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 08:32:15 GMT

As OpenSSL is not backwards compatible, I see that this problem will reoccur everytime there is a jump in the version... Had to downgrade to libssl1.0.0 in Debian to keep my spotify-client working. Not optimal.

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

topyli — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:20:00 GMT

Spotify probably is not interested in supporting Debian testing/Sid, or development versions of any other distribution, and I don't expect them to. Still, I wonder why Spotify always seems to "just work" on Arch Linux, which certainly keeps up with the latest versions of openssl and other libraries. For reference, here's the Spotify PKGBUILD in the AUR, and from what I see the maintainer changes nothing in the Debian package.
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=spotify

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

anarcheano — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 23:53:17 GMT

For those who reeaaallly don't want to blow up the system ssl library, what I did was:

- Download OpenSSL 1.0.0 source (ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/, 1.0.0 latest patch is 1.0.0t)

- sudo aptitude install zlib1g-dev libssl-dev

- (You may also need build tools, like, make and gcc, I already have those installed here)

- Extract and get into openssl source directory

$ ./config --prefix=/opt/openssl1.0.0 threads shared

$ make

# make install

Now create a script and make it executable:

# $EDITOR /usr/local/bin/spotify-opt

------ Insert Content:

#!/bin/sh

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/openssl1.0.0/lib

/usr/bin/spotify

------- END

# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/spotify-opt

And create a desktop entry (I copied the one that comes with spotify on /usr/share/applications, and modified it):

# $EDITOR /usr/local/share/applications/spotify-opt.desktop

----- Content

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Spotify - /opt SSL
GenericName=Music Player
Comment=Spotify streaming music client
Icon=spotify-client
Exec=/usr/local/bin/spotify-opt %U
TryExec=spotify-opt
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Audio;Music;Player;AudioVideo;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/spotify;

---- END

Notice that I modified three options from the original:

The Name, so I can differentiate my desktop entry from the original,

Exec and TryExec, so this entry run /usr/local/bin/spotify-opt instead of /usr/bin/spotify.

I believe most people will find this complicated and not worth it, but if you are one that don't like messing up with your security libraries, that's a better fix than the Jessie package.

Hope it helps.

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

anarcheano — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 01:04:15 GMT

Oh... This was really stupid... There is an way more awesome/simple solution: Use flatpak.

http://flatpak.org/

flatpak and flatpak-builder are already available on debian stretch repos.

https://github.com/alexlarsson/spotify-app

Just Works ™

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

jooon — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:51:10 GMT

@anarcheano wrote:

Oh... This was really stupid... There is an way more awesome/simple solution: Use flatpak.

http://flatpak.org/

flatpak and flatpak-builder are already available on debian stretch repos.

https://github.com/alexlarsson/spotify-app

Just Works ™

Looks nice. We should totally make an official flatpak distribution of Spotify for Linux.

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

JohanCR — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:46:26 GMT

It works man, I appreciate it. I am also using Kali Linux.

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

mdriftmeyer — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 01:12:41 GMT

Not very useful when flatpak just dumps to terminal and not what it is supposed to do: download the Sdk and archive in the .local repository.

Debian Sid: Flatpak 0.6.8.

This is dumping to terminal has been a common problem with the flatpak.org site.

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

serv03 — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 19:24:15 GMT

This worked perfectly for me. Thank you so much!

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

topyli — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:07:39 GMT

BTW, Debian Stretch is now stable, and the Spotify package still refuses to install.

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

somnophobe — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 06:10:28 GMT

using Debian Buster, I was able to install spotify by first installing dirmngr (needed for the key registration command on spotify's instructions page) and then adding Jessie-Backports:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

as an apt source (it's the last version supporting 1.0.0, but looks like it's actually a port of 1.0.2 providing 1.0.0 compatibility)

for other systems:

the Arch Spotify AUR is modified to depend on `openssl-1.0` as opposed to a specific patch version, so that should work if you're AUR-based
Ubuntu just calls all 1.0.x 1.0.0, which is probably the root of the problem. edit: root problem confirmed
this thread has flatpaks, if you're into that

more details on the issue:

noted as an issue with the Spotify Play Button (website thing) May 2016
acknowledged and on Spotify's internal bugtracker October 2016
this thread we're in now is the oldest reference to this issue I've found (February 2016)

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

whati001 — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 09:11:02 GMT

Hi all,

I run into the same issue with debian stretch.

But found an repository for libssl1.0.0 on the package.debian.org webpage.

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/amd64/libssl1.0.0/download

Added to /etc/apt/sources.list or sources.list.d/... as you like.

apt-get update

apt-get install libssl1.0.0

DONE.

Rerun the apt-get install spotify-client and everything went smooth.

Re: The return of the libssl trouble on Linux

jooon — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:25:23 GMT

After almost two years, this has finally been "fixed".

Spotify 1.0.69 in the testing repository now (soon stable) can dynamically load different version of libcrypto.so (from the libssl* packages).