Spotify doesn 't start after upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04

[TheoT001]

After my upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04, Spotify doesn 't start up anymore. Nothing visible happens after 'clicking' on the application icon.

I have tried to install Spotify again, but that doesn't work because the mesaage is that it already has bene installed.

Who can help me out?

TIA,

Theo

[alisamfp]

~$ sudo ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, and this worked for me.

[dernew]

I had same problem and this fixed it thanks, re-installing did not although I had to make sure the repo was listed as a source.

[Knakker]

This worked for me. Thanks!

[chr1ss95]

To give an easy guide for newbies based on Skanda's solution (which worked for me perfectly, thanks!):

sudo apt-get remove spotify-client

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://repository.spotify.com/ stable non-free'

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 94558F5

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install spotify-client

[damiankober]

this worked perfectly for me

whe executing this part

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 94558F5

i got a message complaing that 94558F5 key didn't exist and was omitted though, but it worked

[abitwise]

For 64-bit Ubuntu, the link /usr/lib/libudev.so.0 is missing. To create it, I used the following command:

sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1.3.5 /usr/lib/libudev.so.0

Thank Ji M for making the comment here:
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/04/install-spotify-ubuntu-14-04/

[corny1]

For my 64-bit system this worked:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends spotify-client

sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1.3.5 /usr/lib/libudev.so.0

[0footpr1nt]

This is a build problem and a bug.

Spotify support - please file a bug against dev in your bug managment system as below.

File this:

Please link with libudev.so not libudev.so.1 - unless there is something in a newer libudeb you need, is unlikley, b/c the client works with libudev.so.0's fine. But soft linking, as people are doing to work around can break other software.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3839756/how-do-applications-resolve-to-different-versions-of-shar...

thanx.

[punktino]

I have the same problem in ubuntu 12.04. I followed all the steps and ... Spotify still does not run

This is the message I get in the terminal:

spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory