How-to Install Silverlight Browser Support on Mageia 4 Linux Easy Guide

December 15, 2014 | By thelinuxevangelist | Filed in: Tutorial.

Install Silverlight for Mageia 4 Linux

The Linux Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step How-to Install the Silverlight Firefox and Opera Browser Support by the Pipelight Package for Mageia 4 i586/x8664 Gnome/KDE Linux.

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.

How-to Install Silverlight Browser Support on Mageia 4 Linux - Featured

  1. Open Terminal Window
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

    - Open Terminal

  2. Enable the Pipelight Urpmi Repo for Mageia Linux:

    Pipelight Urpmi Repo Setup

  3. Installing Pipelight and Silverlight for Mageia 4 Linux

    su 

    If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then Look: Solution

    urpmi.update -a
    urpmi pipelight
    pipelight-plugin --update
    pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight
    exit

  4. Disabling SELinux for Firefox Plugin Access

    sudo setsebool -P unconfined_mozilla_plugin_transition 0

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