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Linux Desktop App not starting

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Linux Desktop App not starting

I just installed spotify Linux, and it won't open... I tried opening with terminal, and all I got was an error

 

spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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Hello @TrepKing95,


Welcome to Spotify Community!

For 64-bit OS:

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libg/libgcrypt11/libgcrypt11_1.4.4-5ubuntu2.4_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgcrypt11_1.4.4-5ubuntu2.4_amd64.deb

For 32-bit OS:

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libg/libgcrypt11/libgcrypt11_1.4.4-5ubuntu2.4_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgcrypt11_1.4.4-5ubuntu2.4_i386.deb

Cheers!

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Hello @TrepKing95,


Welcome to Spotify Community!

For 64-bit OS:

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libg/libgcrypt11/libgcrypt11_1.4.4-5ubuntu2.4_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgcrypt11_1.4.4-5ubuntu2.4_amd64.deb

For 32-bit OS:

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libg/libgcrypt11/libgcrypt11_1.4.4-5ubuntu2.4_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgcrypt11_1.4.4-5ubuntu2.4_i386.deb

Cheers!

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