Silverlight in Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I want to enable Silverlight on Ubuntu 14.04. I have seen this question that provides a link to moonlight. However, the latest version of moonlight, seem to support only Mac, Windows and OpenSuse, while the previous version does not support Ubuntu 14.04. How is it possible for users of Ubuntu 14.04 to use an application similar with Silverlight?

Answer 1

You will need to install wine-compholio from a PPA called ppa:pipelight/stable. Basically, it runs Silverlight in a Wine environment. See here: http://www.compholio.com/wine-compholio. Install the package with your browser closed. When you reopen it, you should be able to use Silverlight sites.
For Netflix and a couple of other sites you will also need to adjust the user agent your browser sends out.

Answer 2

You should probably chase down piplight to try to use silverlight in Ubuntu - I think the moonlight project for Ubuntu was abandoned. You can peruse the forums for mono for information about moonlight and linux / Ubuntu, and the launchpad project for information about pipelight.