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I am using Ubuntu 16.04, running this command succeeded:
sudo snap install spotify
And running it again indicates Spotify is installed. However, running:
spotify
Gives command not found! Searching in Unity for "spotify" yields no results. What can I do?
Check your $PATH variable by executing in a Terminal:
echo $PATH
The output should be very similar to this:
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/share/rvm/bin
You have to verify if /snap/bin is included in this $PATH, otherwise you have to add it manually, here is how to do it: How do I modify my PATH so that the changes are available in every Terminal session.
If this doesn't work, try deleting and installing again the snap, the required commands are:
Execute sudo snap list to verify if Spotify is installed.
Use sudo snap remove spotify to delete it.
Use sudo snap install spotify to re-install it again.
After installing it you can run the command which spotify to see if it is recognized now.
Hope it helps, good luck!
/snap/bin to the path as I just tested out spotify and it worked fine. +1 =)
The solution is simple. Log out and log back in again.
Same thing happened to me. It was the first time I had installed a snap app, and I expect that the $PATH variable had changed as per other answers, but the change only takes effect after logging out and logging back in again.
Personally, I simply had to open a different Terminal window. For some reason it couldn't find it from the window I'd used to run the snap command.
source ~/.profile should have the same effect if you don't want to open a new terminal.
Another solution is go to the folder /snap/spotify/6/usr/bin/ and double-click the file spotify.
This worked to me.
I've added to the menu using alacarte, then adding /snap/bin/spotify to the music section
On debian 9, I had to add /snap/bin to the root PATH manually. Do the following:
In /etc/login.defs, you will find the following line:
ENV_SUPATH PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
Add the path so that it will be:
ENV_SUPATH PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin
Exit the session, and login again.
I'm on elementary OS FWIW. My paths are correct.
I was able to manually launch the item via @Zzzach...'s answer subbing in the symlink "current" for the version number as his answer must have been early on in the snap spotify install.
So I manually edited the desktop entry at:
/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/spotify_spotify.desktop
To change the exec location from:
/snap/spotify
To:
/snap/spotify/current/usr/bin/spotify %U
and then it worked via snap. Whether it persists across an update is another story.
I think you could also edit this via the alacarte option too.
/snap/bin/spotifyto launch it. You might not have the/snap/binin your path.