Installing Silverlight for openSUSE
Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Silverlight Firefox and Opera Web Browser Support by the Pipelight Package for openSUSE 12.x/13.x/42.x/Factory and Tumbleweed i686/x8664 GNOME/KDE Linux.
And Pipelight for openSUSE 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 Terminal Window
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.
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Enable the Pipelight Zypper Repo for openSUSE
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Installing Pipelight and Silverlight for openSUSE.
su
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
zypper ref
sudo zypper in pipelight
pipelight-plugin --update
pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight
exit
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Disabling SELinux for Firefox Plugin Access.
sudo setsebool -P unconfined_mozilla_plugin_transition 0