topic Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38 in Desktop (Linux)

New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

janpolski — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:15:59 GMT

After updating spotify-client to the latest version 1.2.77.358.g4339a634 from https://repository.spotify.com stable/non-free application won't launch:

./spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by ./spotify)

This is a problem, because a lot of Linux systems use GLIBC 2.36 (Debian stable, Ubuntu LTS, POP_OS! LTS) and do not have this version.

The only option for many Linux users for now is to stay on the older version (or use flatpack)

Regards!

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

kostakisgr1 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:14:06 GMT

I updated my system and just got the same error.

Using Debian 12

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

user-removed — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:56:53 GMT

Same here on Mint. No longer working as of this morning.

~$ ldd --version ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.35-0ubuntu3.11) 2.35

~$ spotify spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by spotify) spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by spotify)

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

TDK1 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:06:46 GMT

Same problem with Ubuntu 22.04

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

kennyclark — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:30:40 GMT

Same here on KDE Neon. I updated `spotify-client` this morning.

$ ldd --version ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.35-0ubuntu3.11) 2.35

$ spotify spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by spotify) spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by spotify)

$ ls -l /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2220400 Sep 17 23:26 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 $ ls -l /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 940560 Sep 17 23:26 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

MagicJesus — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:38:35 GMT

I'm seeing this on Ubuntu 22.04 this morning as well. What a nice way to start the day 🙂

Does Spotify even test their builds before releasing them to the world? Sloppy

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

sdlion — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:53:22 GMT

Same in Mint 21.3

$ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Linux Mint" VERSION="21.3 (Virginia)"

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

Tomfried — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:31:15 GMT

At least the unofficial Flatpak version still works. I'm wondering if/when that'll stop working, too.

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

мидријаза — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:44:16 GMT

Same deal here, I'm on glibc 2.35. Hoping for a downgrade, but the web client works fine for me in the meantime 😉 especially since this is a labor of love, gotta be patient for these devs: they have a lot on their plates already.

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

rmvmzcp05vej5k1fhvw0 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:16:14 GMT

Same issue here. After latest Spotify update, at the launch app moment, it never starts and logs shows the following error:

spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by spotify)
spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by spotify)

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

rmvmzcp05vej5k1fhvw0 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:16:45 GMT

I forgot to mention the OS is Debian 12 6.1.0-41-amd64

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

escherdragon — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:10:47 GMT

The snap from the "stable" channel on Ubuntu also works. Will have to do until they fix the main release (or the distro catches up, whatever comes first)

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

2204happy — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:59:55 GMT

I'm having the same issue as well, hope this gets fixed, it looks like people are talking about the same issue over on Reddit as well.

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

dpg22 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:47:45 GMT

Same on PopOS .

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

TMM55 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:01:33 GMT

It's broken on LMDE 6 "Faye" as well (not surprising since it's based on Debian 12). Really disappointing that this breaking change was rolled out without warning (honestly, it should never have been made available to Bookworm-derived distributions) and frustratingly I can't roll back (reinstalling the older version from the Faye repo crashes now with a core dump and I lack the skills to debug it).

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

rugg — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:04:56 GMT

same issue, same error message, Ubuntu 22.04.5

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

Knightmares — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:32:58 GMT

~$ ldd --version ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.35-0ubuntu3.11) 2.35

Same problem happening to me i'm using pop os 22.04

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

Nebulian — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:23:50 GMT

It's broken for me as well.

$> cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="12" VERSION="12 (bookworm)" VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

$> spotify spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by spotify) spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by spotify)

$> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 | head -n1 GNU C Library (Debian GLIBC 2.36-9+deb12u13) stable release version 2.36.

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

rexut — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:24:09 GMT

It's a nightmare – please provide the older version again: spotify-client_1.2.74.477.g3be53afe_amd64.deb

Re: New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38

slyd1619 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:19:12 GMT

Having the same issue here.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=jammy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS"

$ spotify spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by spotify) spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by spotify)

For now will be using web client but i hope this gets resolved soon.