HOWTO: Watch Netflix on Bodhi Linux

(Before It's News)

Not being able to utilize the Netflix video streaming service has been an issue on the Linux desktop for the past few years. This is due to the fact that Netflix utilizes Microsoft's Silverlight technology for video playback.

For the last few months though we have been able to watch Netflix in our native browsers on Linux using a Wine pluggin wrapper called Pipelight. Today I would like to walk you through the short process of getting Pipelight working under Bodhi Linux.

Step 1 – Install Chromium or Firefox

Pipelight needs Chromium or Firefox to work. So if you are still using Bodhi's default browser Midori – you will need to install one of these other two browser. You can obtain your browser of choice by clicking on one of the links below:

Step 2 – Install Pipelight

Next we need to install the Pipelight plugin by clicking on the link below:

Pipelight depends on the Microsoft corefonts package. This means that if you do not already have these fonts installed they will be installed as part of the installation of Pipelight. When installing these fonts you need to agree to an EULA, to navigate to the Accept button you will need to use the tab key, and then press the enter button to select it.

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