Yandex Music RPM Workaround for Fedora/openSUSE

This repository contains a tool for adapting the official Yandex Music .deb package to RPM-based distributions (Fedora, openSUSE).

Build Features

• Hi-Res Audio: Stable operation confirmed up to 176.4 KHz via ALSA.
• Bluetooth: Optimized for LDAC codec (tested on Sony WH-XB900N, 88.2 KHz).
• Package Name: Alien automatically increments the package version for correct package manager behavior. You'll see "Beta" where the app shows the build number.
• Integration: Menu categories fixed (now shown under "Music") and taskbar icon display fixed (StartupWMClass). These changes are only in the app launcher. The source code is not modified.
• Updates: A "Update Yandex Music (RPM)" context-menu action is added to the launcher, and the updater scripts are shipped inside the RPM package itself. Both a command-line and a graphical flow are supported — the latter with a standard privilege prompt, a progress indicator, and a final result dialog.

Updating the Application

Do not use the built-in in-app update flow: it targets .deb packages and only breaks the install on RPM systems. If the app offers to update itself — decline.

If a superuser password prompt pops up when you close the app — decline that too.

Use the extra launcher context-menu item instead: "Update Yandex Music (RPM)". It is available from your desktop shell's application menu (GNOME Activities, KDE Application Launcher, etc.) by right-clicking the "Yandex Music" icon.

Enter your password in the standard system privilege dialog and wait for the result window.

Ways to trigger an update:

1. The launcher context-menu item "Update Yandex Music (RPM)" — the graphical flow with progress indicator and result dialog (requires zenity or kdialog).
2. The yandexmusic-rpm-update command in a terminal — same flow; if zenity/kdialog are available, the graphical mode is used, otherwise a text-only mode.
3. ./install_rpm.sh from this repository, for debugging or manual control.
4. ./build_rpm.sh followed by installing the resulting RPM with your system's package tools, when you only need to build without installing.

yandexmusic-rpm-update is a thin wrapper around /opt/Яндекс Музыка/updater/gui_wrapper.sh, which picks the available GUI toolkit and requests privilege elevation via pkexec. It then invokes /opt/Яндекс Музыка/updater/install_rpm.sh, which rebuilds the RPM from the latest .deb in a temporary directory and installs it.

How to Use

1. Clone the repository.
2. Install dependencies: sudo dnf install alien curl desktop-file-utils. Additionally, for the graphical update flow it is recommended to install zenity (GTK) or kdialog (KDE).
3. Build the RPM as a regular user: ./build_rpm.sh.
4. Install the resulting RPM with your system's regular package tools, or use ./install_rpm.sh if you want a guided install/check flow.

build_rpm.sh is a simple builder. It only downloads the .deb, patches the launcher in the Alien build tree, and builds the RPM. It does not require sudo. The resulting RPM can be installed with your system's standard package management tools.

install_rpm.sh is only needed if you want more control over the installation or debugging flow. It handles the privileged part: it looks for a ready RPM in the project directory, runs ./build_rpm.sh if needed, installs the package, updates the desktop database, and verifies that the package and desktop file are present.

Why Not a Prebuilt RPM?

To avoid violating the rights of the license holder, the binary in this repository is included only as an example of a successful script run.

The scripts only automate the conversion of the official package provided by Yandex for your local system.

No changes are made to the application source code; only repackaging is performed using the alien tool, including fixing the launcher inside the generated RPM build tree before the package is built.