Installing Silverlight on Fedora 27
Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Silverlight on Fedora 27 GNU+Linux Desktop.
First, Pipelight for Fedora 27 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
