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Given I have spotify installed on my ubuntu system When i upgrade using:

sudo apt-get update

Then I get this error:

W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 13B00F1FD2C19886

W: Failed to fetch http://repository.spotify.com/dists/stable/InRelease  

W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
yucer
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This happen when somehow we'd lost the keys.

In order to solve it, I did execute the first step listed in the official installation guide, inside the section Debian / Ubuntu

yucer
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    You didn't loose the keys, they changed them. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Linux-users-important-update/td-p/1157534 – dan carter Jul 07 '15 at 10:00
  • In case it complains with `gpg: failed to start the dirmngr '/usr/bin/dirmngr': No such file or directory` try running `sudo apt install dirmngr` – Bit-Man Jul 07 '18 at 00:31
  • Agree, adding the newer keys (Jul 2021) took care of preceisely the NO_PUBKEY error message: curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey_0D811D58.gpg | sudo apt-key add - – Pablo Adames Jul 26 '21 at 01:16
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I had the same problem. Basically what you can do is handle it through Y-PPA-Manager. So please follow exact steps,

  1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager to add webupd8 repository.
  2. sudo apt update
  3. sudo apt install y-ppa-manager
  4. y-ppa-manager to run the y-ppa-manager.
  5. Click on Advanced.
  6. Click on Try to import all missing GPG keys and click Ok. It will give you an alert when it's over.
  7. apt update
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Weirdly enough I started to get this error in 2020. I've fixed it by running those commands that are provided on their website.

curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey_0D811D58.gpg | sudo apt-key add - 
echo "deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install spotify-client

or if you are using snap:

snap install spotify

Commands found here: https://www.spotify.com/de/download/linux/

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