Questions tagged [pipelight]
Pipelight is a special browser plugin which allows one to use windows only plugins inside Linux browsers.
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How to install pipelight on ubuntu 18.04?
since they took down the ppa of pipelight, i cant install this plugin anymore.
Does anyone got a solution for this?
Without a silverlight plugin, sky go (paytv stream) won´t run.
I set up an older ...
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Amzon prime HD video not working anymore HDCP/silverlight issue
HD videos on amazon prime on ubuntu are not working becuase of some HDCP issues, I tried to use prime on windows on the same machine, where it works, so I know that the problem is not with the ...
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How can I install pipelight-multi on Ubuntu 17.04 to steam Silverlight videos?
I have tried the following in order to install pipelight-multi so I can watch videos powered by Microsoft Silverlight (e.g HBO Now):
sudo apt-get install wine-staging
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:...
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Does Sky go/Silverlight still work on Ubuntu
Been playing around trying to get Sky Go/Silverlight to work on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 install but having no success.
Ive installed Wine, Pipelight, created the plugins, tried running Silverlight 5 ...
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installing googale (גוגלה) children's website on ubuntu
Googale (גוגלה) is a Hebrew children's educational website designed for pre-K ages (4-5).
It is currently based on Microsoft Silverlight 5.1 technology.
Since Chrome and Firefox have recently ...
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Why firefox getting slow?
A couple days ago I was trying to enable silverlight in firefox with pipelight. I followed the instructions here http://www.infoworld.com/article/2697813/install-silverlight-alternative-pipelight-in-...
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Netflix just stopped to work on LInux32+firefox
I have been using Netflix on 2 computers for weeks, both with Ubuntu 16, one is a 32 bits computer and the other is a 64 bits. I made them work reading this post: Now that I have Firefox 49 or higher, ...
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How to install Pipelight on ubuntu 16.10
I am facing difficulty in installing pipelight in ubuntu 16.10,
As I can see here, there is no release. Is there a way to install it.
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pipelight: error downloading wine-flash-installer
I've been trying to use pipelight to install Flash on Firefox so I can watch HBO Now. I am able to install Widevine and Silverlight without any issues but I get the following error in console when it ...
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Can't install silverlight/pipelight
For netflix, silverlight or pipelight is needed. I've looked at several different places, such as these sites:
Alternative of Microsoft silverlight on ubuntu
How to install Microsoft Silverlight on ...
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Pipelight for Opera/Chrome? Watching HBO Nordic..
I am trying to stream on HBONordic with is a mess.
I managed to finally getting it working with firefox by installing pipelight-plugin, enabling flash, widevine, and silverlight. And lastly, running ...
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How do I get past the EULA screen in the terminal when trying to install Pipelight?
I am in the process of installing Pipelight (according to the directions I found online). I typed the sudo apt-get install pipelight command everything is fine until I get a EULA from Microsoft in the ...
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How do you watch a channel 4 video with pipelight installed and user agent overrider extension installed on firefox?
I have pipelight installed and user agent overrider extension installed on firefox. I set the user agent overrider extension to Windows / IE 11. But, I get this advert error when I am trying to play a ...
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Unable to install silverlight in Ubuntu 16.04 after using tutorial from multiple sites
I have followed these procedures:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio
sudo update
sudo apt install wine-staging
sudo apt install --install-...
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Silverlight is enabled, yet can't watch Netflix? [duplicate]
My machine is 32 bit so can't use Chrome.
Netflix does not work on chromium.
So I installed silver-light using pipelight:
Any solution?
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Pipelight flash plugin installation doesnt work with 16.04
I have recently installed 16.04 as a replacement for a 14.04.
Reinstalling flash plugin with pipelight, I have followed the french ubuntu page for installing pipelight. Everything seems to work fine ...
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Unable to locate pipelight-multi package [duplicate]
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends pipelight-multi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package pipelight-multi
I got ...
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Can't install pipelight ubuntu 16.04
sudo apt-get install pipelight
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package pipelight is not available, but is referred to by another package....
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Xfinity video not playing
When I try to watch Xfinity/Comcast videos, the actual video does not load.
I have installed Flash, then installed Pipelight and enabled Silverlight, Flash, Shockwave, and Unity3d.
Other Silverlight ...
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Pipelight unmet dependencies
I installed Trusty Tahr on my old Dell Studio 1537 a few hours ago. Since then I've been trying to install pipelight and failed miserably. I get the unmet dependencies problem as many people have ...
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slow pipelight silverlight
I've using Pipelight to stream Silverlight videos from one of the Polish sites: http://onet.tv. The vidoes are jerky though and can't keep up with the streaming. Any ideas how can I debug it? I'm ...
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Pipelight Silverlight not working in Firefox
I installed pipelight and try to enable silverlight with
sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight
And receive the message "Plugin silverlight5.1 is now enabled". But when I go to this page http://...
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Error trying to install pipelight
I try to install pipelight but I get an error msg. What can I do about it?
$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends pipelight-multi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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Trouble accessing Netflix
I've spent 4 hours trying to get Netflix to work on my Ubuntu. I've been to many Help pages and tried various things, including: trying to install Chrome and failing ("Failed to satisfy all ...
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Cannot full screen video in firefox while using Pipelight on hbonow
I recently subscribed to hbonow, which is unfortunately loaded with DRM that is very problematic to watch on linux. Fortunately I was able to get it working on Firefox using Pipelight by following ...
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Unmet dependencies Pipelight
I am trying to install pipelight onto my notebook.
Sadly I can't manage to get it installed.
Every try to install it ends up with:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
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Unity webplayer wont work
I tried using pipelight but I can't get unity to work for me.
I open the terminal and type:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends ...
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Sky Go keeps asking me to activate Silverlight
Can anyone please help? I am trying to watch Sky Go from my Ubuntu 14.10 PC. I have installed pipelight, etc. using a variety of instructions I have found online.
Everything seems to have installed,...
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I can't enable Pipelight?
I've been trying to install pipelight on Kubuntu (I've dual booted into it on my chromebook).
However when I attempt to enable pipelight it doesn't work.
(precise)george@localhost:~$ sudo pipelight-...
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Pipelight stopped functioning after HBO new web update in mid April, 2015
I have got HBO Nordic working with Pipelight on Ubuntu 14.10 for long time. Suddenly a web portal update around the 12-13 of April made it stop working.
I can log into the HBO Nordic with my account. ...
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New HBO Nordic won't play
Am I the only one who can't get HBO Nordic to work after it changed to flash?
The flash player loads and seems fine, but the video never appears.
There are a lot of solutions for the old player, ...
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Message says downloading wine-unity3d-installer (N/A MiB) appears, does not go away
A zenity message saying "downloading wine-unity3d-installer (N/A MiB)" will sometimes appear while I am doing something and just show a flashing download bar forever.
I can force close it but a few ...
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Why is Pipelight attached to Geary? And how can I disable it?
When I start Geary I get the following output in terminal:
user@ubuntu-machine:~$ geary
[PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] attached to process.
[PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] checking environment variable ...
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Why can't I install Pipelight on my Samsung Chromebook
When I follow the commands to get Pipelight on my Chromebook it gets through the first 2 steps: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable and sudo apt-get update. But when I get to the 3th step I ...
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Can't seem to get Pipelight to install
I've been able to complete all the steps from
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install pipelight-multi
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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Xfinity tv not using pipelight flash
I have ubuntu 14.04 with pipelight installed. When I try to watch videos on xfinitytv.comcast.net, it says i'm using flash 11.2. When I go to the adobe site, it tells me I'm using 15. Why do some ...
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Youtube doesn't work anymore in firefox (Ubuntu 14.04)
Title says it all. Whenever I try to play a Youtube video I get the error messages:
Your browser does not recognize any of the video formats available
It worked fine just before I installed the ...
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Watching Netflix on Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]
When I attempt to install pipelight, an error message displays on the terminal:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are ...
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How to install pipelight after closing the terminal the first time [duplicate]
I opened the terminal and did everything right, but accidentally exited out of the process while it was asking for the license and agreements. Now, whenever I try to redo the process, it isn't able ...
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Unity Web Player shows as uninstalled using Pipelight on Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]
I am attempting to get Unity Web Player to work using Pipelight on Chromium. I've enabled the plugin, used various user agents, including Safari 5/OS X, but I continue to get 'You need to install ...
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How can I remove netflix-desktop to get the HD option back on Netflix?
I installed pipelight using this tutorial to watch Netflix using firefox on Ubuntu 14.04 and everything went well. After a couple of weeks and because of lagging problems watching HD stuff on Netflix, ...
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Netflix Desktop nor Pipelight are working?
I was formerly an Arch user, but with Ubuntu's Netflix-Desktop I figured it might be easier to get Netflix running. So I installed Ubuntu 14.04 alongside Arch.
I was wrong, it was not easier. Both ...
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Can't make Netflix work [duplicate]
I have followed all of the installation instructions from
here and here, and neither the pipelight silverlight plugin or the netflix desktop works; both tell me to install the microsoft ...
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Unable to use Netflix - still asked to install silverlight. Firefox, pipelight, silverlight enabled, passed troubleshooting
I have recently got hold of a new laptop running Ubuntu 14.04.
I tried to set up netflix using the pipelight package as I had done previously on my old laptop using Mint 14. Now however, despite ...
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Getting netflix to work with pipelight
I installed and enabled silverlight with pipelight and changed my user agent to Windows Firefox but Netflix tells me I need to install silverlight. Additionally, the bubble demo for pipelight didn't ...
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Pipelight not working on netflix
I have Ubuntu 14.04 and I installed pipelight by following these instructions and switched my user agent. And I can run this test just fine. The problem is that Netflix still gives me a DRM error ...
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Pipelight not Installing [duplicate]
I really want to watch Netflix on Ubuntu, but I can't because Netflix has no support for it. i googled how to watch Netflix on Ubuntu, and it said something about installing pipelight. I tried and ...
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pipelight Libraries: FAILURE
I installed pipelight and then executed this:
pipelight-plugin --system-check
The last lines of the output were:
libXrender.so.1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1
libxslt.so.1: /usr/lib/...
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Pipelight was working with chrome, but it stopped once I restarted
I restarted my computer and went into terminal and enabled pipelight. However, when I try to play a netflix video (With user agent switcher activated) it asks me to install silverlight? I dont know ...
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.wine-pipelight folder not present
Following the instructions on the pipelight installation page, I installed pipelight on Ubuntu 14.04. However, upon opening firefox the .wine-pipelight folder isn't present in my home folder, and I ...
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