Netflix want to update Silverlight

Can you post the exact version of silverlight you are running right now, and the full name of the exe that got downloaded ?

Look's like Ive got a dipper problem, I had the mono silverlight installed at the moment of installing Pipelight :( and I've got an error 0.0 "something want wrong, check the terminal output"... but nothing show up in the terminal :/

Hi,

at first it would be useful to know which method you used to install Pipelight. There are several ones and in order to find the problem we need to know what you exactly did. I will assume you've used the Ubuntu installation via "apt-get install pipelight" - if you've compiled it yourself or used some other way to install, this might be slightly different. If this is the case please describe what you did exactly to find out the issue.

Did you close your browser before starting the installation? If not, you might have the following problem:
https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+faq/2357
This FAQ also contains the commands how to force a reinstallation of the wine prefix.

If there is still something going wrong, use the following steps to get the terminal output:
* Close all your browsers
* Manually open a terminal, type there for example "firefox" or "google-chrome" (depending on which browser to use)
* Open the "about:plugins" page in the browser, the terminal should now contain some messages starting with [PIPELIGHT], one of them should probably be an error, which describes what is going wrong.

If you need help doing that you can also join the #pipelight channel on IRC freenode
(Webchat: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23pipelight )
this way we can figure out whats going wrong much easier by asking you some questions.

Sebastian

For the instalation Y've used zypper on Opensuse tumbleweed 64 bits with the RPM provided by Packman version 0.1+2+20130818000040-2.2.
And I did have Firefox opened at the moment of the installation :(

In Chrome I've got this terminal output:
[PIPELIGHT] Attached to process
[PIPELIGHT] Trying to load config file from /home/philippe/.config/pipelight
[PIPELIGHT] Trying to load default config file from /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight
[PIPELIGHT] Couldn't find any configuration file
[PIPELIGHT] Unable to load config file - aborting

Hi,

we've just looked at the package and it seems to be broken at the moment.

The package you tried out is not an "official" one, but a user-created, and obviously was released before testing - nevertheless we'll try to contact the maintainer of that package and try to help him getting the remaining issues fixed soon.

In the meantime you'll unfortunately have to be patient, or compile it by yourself if you've some experience how to do that.

Sebastian

Yep, it's messy
The config file provided by Packman's rpm is /etc/pipelight
I've linked it to /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight
But it contain calls to unexistant Wine install and path :(
I've tried to point the wine executable path to my wine system install without succes

Now it spit
[PIPELIGHT] Attached to process
[PIPELIGHT] Trying to load config file from /home/philippe/.config/pipelight
[PIPELIGHT] Trying to load default config file from /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight
[PIPELIGHT] Using wine prefix directory /home/philippe/.wine-pipelight/
[PIPELIGHT] Silverlight not correctly installed - aborting

Hi,

its really complicated to get that broken package running:

* Pipelight needs a special patched version of wine, and does not run with the one provided by the distributions. - So the first step would be to check out how to compile wine, get the patches, and compile that stuff... I assume that isn't really easy.

* The next complicated step is to get Silverlight running inside of wine. In Ubuntu and Archlinux there are ready to use packages, but there doesn't seem to exist something similar for OpenSuse yet (or I didnt find it). So you would have to figure out how to do port the packages to OpenSuse to get Silverlight installed.

The config file isn't the main error, but just the tip of the iceberg. In order to get rid of the next error "Silverlight not correctly installed" you would at least have to setup your own silverlight installation in the approprite wine prefix by downloading the correct installer manually and running it there (or port a package from Ubuntu/ArchLinux).

We just send an email to the maintainer, but we don't have any answer yet, so we'll have to wait if he can probably provide some fixes soon.

If you have some specific questions we will help you of course, but we also don't know OpenSuse that well - if you're not that experienced with compiling and building packages for OpenSUSE the best you can probably do is wait a few days :/ Sorry

Sebastian

Thank's so much

Will wait and post my results if significant

We've talked to the developer of that package today and he has confirmed that it is not ready to use yet, as both the wine patched wine version and the silverlight installer is still missing and has not been ported yet - but he's already working on implementing the other parts of Pipelight, then it should hopefully work.

We will keep you up-to-date and inform you as soon as a first full functional release is ready to test.

Thank's
Working great under opensuse Tumbleweed 64 bits with Chrome.
I've got a OOPs somthing went wrong under firefox

2013/9/11 Michael Müller <email address hidden>

> Your question #234410 on Pipelight changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/234410
>
> Michael Müller proposed the following answer:
> Hello Philippe,
>
> we now have a ready to use package for OpenSuse, please take a look at:
>
> http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-08/pipelight-using-silverlight-in-linux-browsers.html#section_1_4
>
> Michael
>
> --
> If this answers your question, please go to the following page to let us
> know that it is solved:
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/234410/+confirm?answer_id=11
>
> If you still need help, you can reply to this email or go to the
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Now, with user-agent-overrider, iths working perfectly under firefox also,
I've made a launcher on my KDE4 Desktop with "google-chrome --kiosk
netfix.com" as command and got a perfect experience

2013/9/11 Philippe Demartin <email address hidden>

> Your question #234410 on Pipelight changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/234410
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> You are still having a problem:
> Thank's
> Working great under opensuse Tumbleweed 64 bits with Chrome.
> I've got a OOPs somthing went wrong under firefox
>
>
> 2013/9/11 Michael Müller <email address hidden>
>
> > Your question #234410 on Pipelight changed:
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/234410
> >
> > Michael Müller proposed the following answer:
> > Hello Philippe,
> >
> > we now have a ready to use package for OpenSuse, please take a look at:
> >
> >
> http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-08/pipelight-using-silverlight-in-linux-browsers.html#section_1_4
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > --
> > If this answers your question, please go to the following page to let us
> > know that it is solved:
> >
> >
> https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/234410/+confirm?answer_id=11
> >
> > If you still need help, you can reply to this email or go to the
> > following page to enter your feedback:
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/234410
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Thanks Michael Müller, that solved my question.

FWIW:

I just got the same problem on Firefox on Ubuntu; Netflix wanted to install/download silverlight_x64.exe

It happened after a "sudo apt-get update/upgrade" in which I got a new version of Firefox (30.0).

Problem was gone after "sudo apt-get install pipelight" (although pipelight 0.2.7 was already installed and working correctly), which resulted in pipelight 0.2.7.1

sander@flappie:~$ sudo apt-get install pipelight
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  pipelight
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10,6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 47,1 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pipelight/stable/ubuntu/ trusty/main pipelight amd64 0.2.7.1~ubuntu14.04.1 [10,6 kB]
Fetched 10,6 kB in 0s (106 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package pipelight.
(Reading database ... 352214 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../pipelight_0.2.7.1~ubuntu14.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking pipelight (0.2.7.1~ubuntu14.04.1) ...
Setting up pipelight (0.2.7.1~ubuntu14.04.1) ...

The following modules require a license confirmation before they can be enabled:

[*] Microsoft Silverlight 5.1
 By continuing the installation you agree that you've read and accepted the
 MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS:
 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=229303

 Microsoft Silverlight Privacy Statement:
 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=229306

 To find out more click here:
 http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/

[*] mpg2splt.ax
 This library is part of the Microsoft DirectX End-User Runtime.
 By continuing the installation you agree that you've read and accepted the
 Microsoft Software License Terms.
 You can find them in /usr/share/pipelight/licenses/license-mpg2splt.txt

 To find out more click here:
 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

The following modules are marked as optional dependencies:

[*] wininet.dll [OPTIONAL]
 This wininet.dll library is a debug version provided for the Microsoft
 Internet Explorer. By continuing the installation you agree that you've
 read and accepted the license terms.
 You can find them in /usr/share/pipelight/licenses/license-wininet.txt

 To find out more click here:
 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11434

 To agree to this license run (for each user who wants to use this module):
 touch $HOME/.config/wine-wininet-installer.accept-license

Plugin silverlight5.1 is now enabled
sander@flappie:~$