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Hi I'm trying to use the Netflix Desktop application on my Ubuntu 13.04 machine. After following these instructions I've run into a couple of errors. Attempting to open the application through the HUD gives me 

Unable to test extended attributes at location '/home/username/.wine-browser'.

Trying to open it through the command line gives me a bit of a different error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/wine-browser-installer/test-xattr", line 3, in <module>
    import xattr
ImportError: No module named xattr

I've gone through and attempted to install the xattr python module: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xattr

But, running

python setup.py install

gives me a long list of errors involving gcc...

I've also found this, but deleting/renaming .wine-browser didn't work - I followed this.

Does anybody have any idea how to fix this issue? Having Netflix for Ubuntu would be a major plus for me! Thanks!

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  • I've figured something out that some people may find useful. The standard version of python which ships with Ubuntu has the module xattr, though I use Anaconda python. There are two options I can see working: 1) Tell netflix-desktop which version of python to use, or 2) Try to get xattr for Anaconda python. I'm going to try option number two first.
    – astromax
    Nov 26, 2013 at 20:26
  • This will allow the installation of xattr with Anaconda python: groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/forum/#!topic/anaconda/….
    – astromax
    Nov 26, 2013 at 20:28

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I had the same problem and, in my case, it happened because root was the owner of .wine-browser directory:

$ ls -lhd /home/username/.wine-browser/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4,0K Jul  4 23:08 /home/username/.wine-browser/

I solved the problem by opening a terminal as root and change the user/group of Wine directory:

$ sudo su
# cd /home/username
# chown -R username.usergroup .wine-browser/`

where username.usergroup is your user "login/group".

After that, I opened the netflix-desktop and it works fine.

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  • Thanks for the post. One question? What is my 'group' if the computer is only used by me and I have root access?
    – astromax
    Oct 4, 2013 at 0:43
  • Use groups username to view the groups the user is part of. Pick the first one for the commands above.
    – Niklas Lindblad
    Oct 6, 2013 at 10:14
  • Hmm. This didn't seem to work for me. Any other suggestions?
    – astromax
    Oct 18, 2013 at 15:23
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First of all, notice that the test-xattr file has #!/usr/bin/env python on its first line, which means the system is getting the default python setup on your environment. In my case, the xattr module was installed on my 2.7 python, and the default was 3.x.

So all I did was change the first line to #!/usr/bin/python2.7.

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What I did sure isn't the right answer but it works, I comment all the lines in the file /usr/share/wine-browser-installer/test-xattr and I put only a print hello. It shows a error when installing but after that Netflix starts working..

I hope it helps you.

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