Installing Silverlight on Fedora 26
How to Install Silverlight on Fedora 26 GNU+Linux desktop – Step by step Tutorial.
First, Pipelight for Fedora 26 make use of Wine to run Windows browser plugins like Silverlight in the context of Linux browsers.
And 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
Especially relevant: Pipelight has been Discontinued and is Not Working in PPAPI Browsers with the best Security features.

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Open a Shell Session
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.
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Enable the RPM Fusion DNF Repo for Fedora
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Installing Pipelight and Silverlight for Fedora.
su
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
sudo dnf install 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