Spotify Installation: Pubkey Issues?

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I tried to use Pacman to install Spotify from AUR, which has worked fine for other applications (Minecraft for example). Firstly, I did git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/spotify.git, which worked fine. Then, I cded to the directory it installed to. I tried to do makepkg, but it gave me an error (“One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!”) Here is the full output it gave me:

 ~/spotify >>> makepkg                                              ±[●][master]
==> Making package: spotify 1:1.1.42.622-2 (Mon 26 Oct 2020 11:58:04 AM EDT)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found spotify.protocol
  -> Found LICENSE
  -> Found spotify-1.1.42.622-Release
  -> Found spotify-1.1.42.622-Release.sig
  -> Found spotify-1.1.42.622-x86_64.deb
  -> Found spotify-1.1.42.622-x86_64-Packages
==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    spotify.protocol ... Passed
    LICENSE ... Passed
    spotify-1.1.42.622-Release ... Skipped
    spotify-1.1.42.622-Release.sig ... Skipped
==> Validating source_x86_64 files with sha512sums...
    spotify-1.1.42.622-x86_64.deb ... Passed
    spotify-1.1.42.622-x86_64-Packages ... Passed
==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg...
    spotify-1.1.42.622-Release ... FAILED (unknown public key D1742AD60D811D58)
==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!

After some Googling, I found that this seems to be a pretty common issue, possibly stemming from Spotify having multiple pubkeys. Some people, including Manjaro users, seem to have been able to fix this by usingwgetto install the pubkeys, but I cannot for some reason. A thread on the Arch forums is where I got most of my information about the issue. The last poster before the thread was closed seems to have fixed it usingwgetpiped to GPG importing, and I copy-pasted their command, then triedmakepkgagain, but it still did not work. Since I cannot link the thread, here is the command they used. curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | gpg --import -`
Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas as to what I’m doing wrong? Thank you!

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If you check the AUR page of the Spotify package, you will see that you must do :

curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey_0D811D58.gpg | gpg --import -

Tip : before googling, just look at the AUR pages on nthe Arch site. this is the one for Spotify :
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify

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Thank you so much! I can’t believe I missed that!

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Thanks for this!

For all the other people finding this topic: Also clear build data and cache for AUR in Pamac! I had to do so to make it work.

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