How to Install Silverlight Browser Support on Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela LTS 32-64bit GNU Easy Guide

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 17.2 Rafaela LTS i386/amd64 GNU+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.

1. Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
   Ctrl+Alt+t
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

2. How to Add Pipelight Linux Mint PPA Apt Repo

   Adding Pipelight Mint PPA

   Enable

3. 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

   

4. Restart Firefox Browser to Install Silverlight into Wine.

   

How to Install Opera Web Browser on Linux Mint:
Installing Opera on Linux Mint