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b009z

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From: Under your bed

Registered: 2023-06-15

Posts: 3

Need help installing spotify-launcher

Having read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/spotify, I installed spotify-launcher with pacman. I ran spotify-launcher through rofi. It downloaded halfway then 'finished' and hung. I then ran spotify-launcher with cli and it this is the output

[2023-07-06T13:34:19Z INFO  spotify_launcher::config] Loading configuration file at "/etc/spotify-launcher.conf"
[2023-07-06T13:34:19Z INFO  spotify_launcher::apt] Downloading release file...
[2023-07-06T13:34:19Z INFO  spotify_launcher::apt] Downloading signature...
[2023-07-06T13:34:20Z INFO  spotify_launcher::apt] Verifying pgp signature...
[2023-07-06T13:34:20Z INFO  spotify_launcher::apt] Signature verified successfully!
[2023-07-06T13:34:20Z INFO  spotify_launcher::apt] Downloading package index...
[2023-07-06T13:34:20Z INFO  spotify_launcher::apt] Verifying with sha256sum hash...
[2023-07-06T13:34:20Z INFO  spotify_launcher::apt] Downloading deb file for "spotify-client_1.2.13.661.ga588f749_amd64.deb" version="spotify-client" ("1:1.2.13.661.ga588f749")

(zenity:3189): Gtk-WARNING **: 23:34:20.626: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:6691:68: Invalid name of pseudo-class
Error: request or response body error: error reading a body from connection: end of file before message length reached

Caused by:
    0: error reading a body from connection: end of file before message length reached
    1: end of file before message length reached

I'm not sure where to go from this. I have searched up the error but cannot find anything relevant. I watched my network usage while it was running. 100% bandwidth was being used until it through the error, then went to zero.

Edit1: one thing to note is that it isn't 100% consistent with how far the bar progresses before collapsing to the end. It is usually at the triple ellipses, although can happen at the start.

Last edited by b009z (2023-07-06 13:53:01)

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no idea what i am doing, send help.

d_fajardo

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Registered: 2017-07-28

Posts: 1,687

Re: Need help installing spotify-launcher

Have you tried simply stalling the AUR version? It's much simpler in my opinion and pacman keeps track of the updates.

b009z

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From: Under your bed

Registered: 2023-06-15

Posts: 3

Re: Need help installing spotify-launcher

Yes spotify from the aur works just fine. Although that's not my issue. I like the idea of sticking to the official repositories when I can. Any idea what would throw that error above?

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phluxcoblt

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Registered: 2021-08-01

Posts: 8

Re: Need help installing spotify-launcher

In my experience,

 Error: request or response body error: error reading a body from connection: end of file before message length reached 

means that the connection closed before it was possible to read the number of bytes indicated in the content-length header.

Check your connection.

Retry the command several times.

Run pacman -Syu and retry the command after.

Finally, even though the warning about the Gtk theme parsing error is likely unrelated, it might also be worth investigating further if the previous steps do not resolve your issue.

If this is an upstream error, it might be resolved later. As a last resort, if the AUR package works, it may be the best solution.

b009z

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From: Under your bed

Registered: 2023-06-15

Posts: 3

Re: Need help installing spotify-launcher

I'm only able to use a wireless connection, although I haven't had issues outside of this. I have also tried with other gtk themes that don't throw that warning without luck. The outcome / progress bar is mostly consistent each time I try to run it. There are two outcomes when starting the program: 1. network usage starts at ~300kb/s then it throws the error before the bar gets 10% of the distance. 2. The more common outcome, network usage starts at ~5.5MB/s (my network maximum speed due to dsl and australia), gets to the triple ellipses then throws the error. I'll have to try each day I guess and see if it resolves itself, but I have just finished configuring the aur package so may have to stick with that. Thanks for you suggestions.

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Landmark9348

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Registered: 2023-07-24

Posts: 1

Re: Need help installing spotify-launcher

So I had the same issue this morning and the way I fixed it was deleting spotify or spotify-tui from config folder, I deleted both of them because I wanted to sign in again.
After doing that I launched spotify-launcher from terminal and it downloaded without any issue. Hopefully this fixes it for you as well or maybe you already fixed it by now.

/home/(user)/.config

uwaylu

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Registered: 2023-10-22

Posts: 1

Re: Need help installing spotify-launcher

I use wired network and encounter the same error. I install with the following:

Read `spotify-launcher --help` first, and

+ Download from `spotify-launcher --print-deb-url`
+ Install Locally with `spotify-launcher --deb ${path_to_your_dl_file}`

Kaidao

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Registered: 2023-11-03

Posts: 1

Re: Need help installing spotify-launcher

I use wired network and encounter the same error. I install with the following:

Read `spotify-launcher --help` first, and

+ Download from `spotify-launcher --print-deb-url`
+ Install Locally with `spotify-launcher --deb ${path_to_your_dl_file}`

Thank you! This worked for me. I noticed when I was downloading the .deb file that it was failing a few times, so I wonder if there's a problem with the download URL.