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Could someone help me with netflix on Ubuntu 14.04 desktop.
Pipelight does not work. When I go to the netflix desktop application it opens firefox, and shows the series, but when I click to play a screen appears telling me: 

You're almost ready and only need to install the microsoft silverlight plugin.

Pipelight itself is installed and enabled but I saw in the window on the desktop opens netflix portion plugins complements the pipelight appears with this error

Pipelight Error (silverlight5.1)!
Something went wrong, check the terminal output
libpipelight-silverlight5.1.so
application/x-pipelight-error-silverlight5.1  
(Error during initialization: pipelighterror-silverlight5.1)

If I open Firefox by other plugins and see the pipelight okay, this error does not appear.

Pabi
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I have successfully enabled netflix desktop with a customized wine version from:

http://pipelight.net/cms/install/installation-ubuntu.html

You will need to enable silverlight before start wine-browser Use two commands: 

sudo pipelight-plugin --update
pipelight-plugin --update

For some reason the first command was not enough, I have started wine-browser before ran it, and I had to remove the .wine-browser folder with: 

rm -rf .wine-browser

And then I ran it without any problem. (silverlight plugin).

There is also: A way to enable netflix-desktop using pipelight

With commands: 

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop

It seems to install a shortcut to the application so you just have to call Netflix from your dash or alt+f2 (krunner), etc.

pablodav
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You can try re-installing Pipelight. I used the following commands to install and update:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pipelight-multi

Now enable silverlight plugin

sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight

the netflix app should work now. Also i has observed the same error where it asks to install silverlight even after enabling it using Pipelight. I rebooted ubuntu, this kicked in the silverlight and then the app works fine.

egeek
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