Spotify is an online music service that allows us through a monthly fee to enjoy the huge catalog it has. It has applications for almost all operating systems including our beloved Debian 11 And I’m not kidding when I say that this is one of the first things many of us do when installing a new distribution.

Spotify’s clean Spotify application is quite good. It allows us to browse through the entire application catalog quickly and easily. Also, we can play music, add favorites, and do everything that the web version allows us.

Oh, in case I forgot, with Spotify, we will also have at our disposal many podcasts of all possible topics. So let’s go for it.

Install Spotify on Debian 11

For Debian 11 we have several installation methods that we can take advantage of. One of them is through APT. For this, we add the Spotify repository and from there the installation.

On the other hand, we have the Flatpak package that allows us to isolate it from the system and this method not only works for Debian 11 but any distribution.

Let’s start.

Installing Spotify using the repository

In this process, we need to add the repository to our system. To do this, open a terminal and first update Debian

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Now download and add the GPG key from the repository to the system.

curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey_0D811D58.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

Next, add the Spotify repository to the system

echo "deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list

Now, refresh APT

sudo apt update

And install Spotify by running:

sudo apt install spotify-client

After the installation is finished you can run it from the main menu.

Install Spotify on Debian 11 via Flatpak

The second method is to use the super reliable Flatpak. So, first, install it on the system

sudo apt install flatpak

Now add the Flathub repository which is where the Spotify package is hosted.

sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

And then install Spotify

sudo flatpak install flathub com.spotify.Client

Finally, run it from the main menu.

Conclusion

In this post, you learned how to install Spotify on Debian 11. This way you can now have it on your system and enjoy the service.

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We already know that Flatpak is a fantastic technology and is widely used by many distributions like Debian, Linux Mint, OpenSUSE or Fedora. Therefore it is a very good installation method if you don’t use Linux Mint or if you don’t like Snap.

Briefly, what is Chromium?

Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web. In case you didn’t know, Chromium is the basis of the well-known Google Chrome and they share many features. They only differ in the support of proprietary multimedia files and small things more.

The problem came when Ubuntu 20.04 included Chromium in Snap format. This forced users to use Snap if they wanted Chromium.

Now, this has changed because the Linux Mint team has packaged Chromium in DEB form so it is now easier to do.

Let’s get started.

Install Chromium using Flatpak

One of the first things we have to do is make sure we have Flatpak in our system.

If you use Ubuntu 20.04 or Debian 10, run this command to install Flatpak

sudo apt install flatpak

For Ubuntu 18.04, add a repository to have a recent version of Flatpak:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson/flatpak
sudo apt update
sudo apt install flatpak

In the case of Fedora, you don’t have to do anything because Flatpak is already installed and configured by default in the distribution.

If you use OpenSUSE everything comes down to this command:

sudo zypper install flatpak

On the other hand, if your operating system is Arch Linux or one of its derivatives, you have to execute the following command:

sudo pacman -S flatpak

Now what I want to do is to add the Flathub repository which is the biggest Flatpak application repository there is.

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

And later, to carry out the installation with the following command:

flatpak install flathub org.chromium.Chromium

Then you can run it from the main menu or by executing this command:

flatpak run org.chromium.Chromium

And voilà…

Conclusion

Google Chrome is the most popular browser out there but there is always an alternative to the giant and this is run by Firefox and Chromium. The latter is quite similar and in fact is the root of the project.

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Within GNU/LINUX we have a veteran program like Calibre that has already positioned itself as a reference in the field of e-books, but is not properly an Epubs reader.

Simplicity to read E-book

Simplicity is in fashion, that paradigm of clean interfaces but without removing functionality, I like it. Bookworm also joins this model of graphical interfaces, introducing itself like ” A simple, focused eBook reader “. It was originally intended to be used only in Elementary OS but due to community contributions, its use was extended to other distributions.

Some of its features are:

• Supports the following formats: Epub, Pdf, MOBI, cbr and cbz.
• Toggle between a grid view and a list view for the library.
• Filtering using the search bar in the library view
• Full screen mode is supported
• Multiple pages of the book can be bookmarked
• Three reading profiles of light, sepia and dark
• Possibility to customize the font size

Installing Bookworm is easy thanks to Flatpak

Bookworn is an open source project and therefore we can install it from its sources, as well as from your Github website, but we can install it on any GNU/LINUX distribution that supports flatpak.

In order not to make the matter complicated, we can say that Flatpak is a technology that allows applications to run in a kind of sandbox isolating it from the system in general. The main advantage of this is that you can install a program with all its dependencies on any GNU/LINUX distribution that supports Flatpak. Then our first step will be to install flatpak:

Debian, Ubuntu or derivates:

           sudo apt install flatpak

Arch Linux and derivates

          sudo pacman -S flatpak

Solus OS:

          sudo eopkg install flatpak xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

And OpenSuse:

         sudo zypper in flatpak

Note: Some distributions like Fedora and Linux Mint, Flatpak is already installed.

Once installed flatpak, proceed to install it with the command (Not root user):

           flatpak install –from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.github.babluboy.bookworm.flatpakref

During the download and installation of Bookworm, the super user password will be requested several times.

Once the process is finished, we can run it from our applications menu.

As we can see, since we don’t have an e-book in our home folder, the program asks us to add some. After adding some that I had available, it looks like this:

We can also change the view of our library

Here the options window, highlighting the possibility of switching to night mode and the font.

When you click on one of the e-books, it immediately displays its content.

Reading is very important, so much so that it is a fundamental process of learning and thanks to the Internet we can obtain many works in a few clicks and at a reasonable price; but a suitable program would be needed to be able to enjoy reading. Bookworm emerges as a valid and simple alternative to read comfortably from our e-books.

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