Install Silverlight for Linux Mint
You are Welcome! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install the Silverlight Firefox and Opera Web Browser Support by the Pipelight Package for Linux Mint 17 Qiana LTS i386/amd64.
Pipelight allows one to run Windows browser plugins in the context of Linux browsers.
To Achieve this Pipelight do:
- Connects the Windows DLL with the Linux process
- Translates between platform dependent differences on the NPAPI
- Uses a Patched Wine version
Pipelight needs to start Wine to execute the pluginloader. This May Slow down the Start of Your Browser.

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Open a Command Line Terminal Window
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands).Ctrl+Alt+T
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How to Add Pipelight Linux Mint PPA Apt Repo
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Installing Pipelight for Linux Mint.
sudo su
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
apt-get install --install-recommends pipelight-multi
pipelight-plugin --update
pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight
exit
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Restart Firefox Browser to Install Silverlight into Wine.
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