[HOW TO] install old Spotify 0.x (only 64 bit) on Mageia 6
As usual, Spotify 0.x can be installed using Leamas script, see notes in bottom of this post.
If you upgraded your system you probably need not reinstall.
HOWEVER Spotify (at least 0.9.x) need an old version of a lib; it need libgcrypt.so.11 (package lib64gcrypt11) that Mageia 6 do not have.
Like recent fedora and other distros, Cauldron (at least as of yet) but instead have libgcrypt.so.20 (package lib64gcrypt20)
First i tried simply linking like this
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§ su -
# cd /usr/lib64
# ln -s libgcrypt.so.20 libgcrypt.so.11
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/lib64/libgcrypt.so.11: version `GCRYPT_1.2' not found (required by /home/kajsa/.local/lib/spotify-client/libcef.so)
Then i simply grabbed that file from my mga5 install and put it in mga6, and it just works
More precisely on a current mga5, /usr/lib64/libgcrypt.so.11 is a softlink to /usr/lib64/libgcrypt.so.11.8.3, which i copied and put in my mga6 as /usr/lib64/libgcrypt.so.11, making sure to have the correct ownership root:root and chmod 755.
Notes:
§ The system tray icon do not work properly, but that is still the state of several tray icons here...
§ Probably better to build/rebuild libgcrypt.so.11 for mga6 - this above is a "quick fix"
§ All above is for 64 bit system. 32 bits 0.x version was long ago. But 1.x exist for 32 bit, see below.
§ Spotify "offifcially" did not support Linux, but they release .deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu
§ I installed it using https://github.com/leamas/spotify-make which install these in Fedora, OpenSuse, Mageia...
Using Leamas-Spotify still today 2016-09-29 convert and install the old but golden spotify-client-0.9.17_0.9.17.8.gd06432d.31-1_amd64.deb
Backup location 0.9.17.8: http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify/ (64 bit only)
§ Possible another installer in case leamas fail in future: https://github.com/aspiers/opensuse-spotify-installer/