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Please help me compile and install Spot, a native Spotify client for GNOME, on Ubuntu 22.04.

Instructions

Here are the instructions from the application's GitHub page:

Requires Rust (stable), GTK4, and a couple other things. Also requires libadwaita: it is not packaged on all distros at the moment, you might have to build it yourself!

With meson:

meson target -Dbuildtype=debug -Doffline=false --prefix="$HOME/.local"
ninja install -C target

This will install a .desktop file among other things, and the spot executable will be put in .local/bin (you might want to add it to your path).

To build an optimized release build, use -Dbuildtype=release instead.

What I've Tried

  1. I downloaded the source code using:

    git clone https://github.com/xou816/spot.git

  2. I do not know how to install Rust (as a deb package) in Ubuntu.

  3. I have installed meson and ninja as follows. Is this correct? Am I missing any other packages?

    sudo apt install ninja-build meson

  4. I get the following error when I execute the meson target... command from above. How can I resolve this?

    src/meson.build:3.0: ERROR: Pkg-config binary for machine 1 not found. Giving up.
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  1. Install prerequisite development packages.

    sudo apt-add-repository universe
sudo apt install git pkg-config libadwaita-1-dev cmake libssl-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libxml2-utils ninja-build meson rust-all

  2. Download, compile, and install Spot.

    cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://github.com/xou816/spot.git
cd spot
meson target -Dbuildtype=release -Doffline=false --prefix="/usr"
sudo ninja install -C target

  3. Optionally, remove the prerequisite development packages.

    sudo apt autoremove git pkg-config libadwaita-1-dev cmake libssl-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libxml2-utils ninja-build meson rust-all
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