Now you’re able to enjoy all of your favorite Netflix movies right on your Ubuntu powered PC.Native Netflix Linux playback can be enabled in the latest beta and development builds of Google Chrome - no Wine-wrapped Silverlight plugin required. Since Silverlight is not available on Linux, sites like Netflix are a no-go. Silverlight is a plugin that has long plagued Linux users.

If you chose not to close your browser while installing the plugin, enter the command below into your terminal and restart your browser.

If you’re using Chrome/Chromium install User Agent Switcher and select Windows Firefox 15 from User Agent Switcher’s preferences (this can be found by going to the extension page in Chrome/Chromium. If you use Firefox install UAControl and select something similar to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1 rv:23.0) Gecko/20131011 Firefox/23.0 in UAControl. In order to do that, a user agent switcher is needed. We’re not done yet, Netflix will not work unless you trick it into thinking that you’re using a Windows PC.

Once the installation of Pipelight has finished, open your browser.

Enter the command below into your terminal to install Pipelight.

After software sources have been updated, we can finally install the plugin to your system.

Do this by entering the command below in your terminal.

Once both of the PPAs have been enabled, you’ll need to update your software sources.

Sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mqchael/pipelight Sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio Once the terminal window has opened, enter the commands below. Search for ‘terminal’ in the Unity dash and open it. To enable these PPAs, we need to enter some terminal commands.

To get Pipelight working we’re going to need to install two different PPAs.

To install Microsoft Silverlight on Ubuntu, do the following: How To Install Microsoft Silverlight On Ubuntu Load this guide on your mobile device, if you have a browser open while this plugin installs, it could fail to install properly. Pipelight has been confirmed to work pretty much flawlessly with Netflix, Maxdome and Sumo 2. Pipelight is able to work on other Linux distributions, but the process covered in this guide is specific to Ubuntu it will work on all versions of Ubuntu. This guide will be making use of Pipelight, a plugin that brings Microsoft Silverlight to Linux. Are you an Ubuntu user that is frustrated with the lack of Silverlight support on Ubuntu? You’re in luck! This guide will teach you a trick that you can do to get Silverlight support right in your native Linux browser with Pipelight! Let’s get started!

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