Has anyone installed Moonlight with Epiphany?

**DJ_Peng** · January 9th, 2009

I recently switched from using Firefox 3 to Epiphany 2.24.1 and I'd like to add the Moonlight plugin. I know there's a thread for installing it from source code but I have the pre-compiled code from Novell. Has anyone gotten it to work with epiphany-browser? I can compile it if I need to, but I'd still need to know how to get it installed so Epiphany will recognize it.

**directhex** · January 10th, 2009

Originally Posted by DJ_Peng

I recently switched from using Firefox 3 to Epiphany 2.24.1 and I'd like to add the Moonlight plugin. I know there's a thread for installing it from source code but I have the pre-compiled code from Novell. Has anyone gotten it to work with epiphany-browser? I can compile it if I need to, but I'd still need to know how to get it installed so Epiphany will recognize it.

Assuming you mean Epiphany-Gecko, not Epiphany-Webkit, you could use packages, rather than a .xpi file.

Try

Code:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/directhex/ubuntu intrepid main

Package is moonlight-plugin-mozilla. (tested quickly on AMD64 Intrepid; minor focus problem w/ right-click menus on Epi; packages may not have built yet on the PPA - be patient)

**DJ_Peng** · January 10th, 2009

You're right, I did mean epiphany-gecko. Sorry I wasn't more clear. I keep forgetting there's an epiphany-webkit since i looked at it and was kind of thrown by how different some of the pages looked. Thanks for that PPA. I've added it to my 3rd party repos, and I'm snagging moonlight-plugin-mozilla and its dependencies right now. I definitely owe you a brew, directhex, and I'll keep my eyes open for the Epiphany-gecko package.

This? Is why I love the open source community. You can look for something, evidently miss the one thing you're looking for, and then post a question to the boards. Almost every time there's someone smart enough to know what you missed seeing and they don't just tell you what you need, they show you where to find it. The Windows community was never quite this helpful.

**DJ_Peng** · January 10th, 2009

I see on about

lugins that Moonlight is seen by Epiphany-Gecko, but trying both the video page for MLB.com and a local classic rock radio station only to see that I'm unable to see the Silverlight content. Did I miss installing something? I know the Moonlight beta were missing the media codecs or something but wven I checked the MLB video page in Fx3 on a clean profile I still get a message that I need Silverlight to see the content (with your package, not the xpi from the Moonlight site). I'm going to see if a system restart helps any, although I doubt it would be much different since I completely closed Epiphany after installing the package.

**directhex** · January 10th, 2009

It's possible the sites you use require Silverlight 2.0 (Moonlight only has 1.0 support at the moment). My usual SL1 demo page is:

http://miguelmoreno.net/sandbox/Silverlight_0/

which is tested as working on Epiphany in Intrepid

**DJ_Peng** · January 10th, 2009

Animusic! Now that's a cool test page! :8) It's weird, I was able to see the pages for MLB.com before I did my recent reinstall but it isn't working now. I see on the Moonlight project page that it recommends having ffmpeg to see the media content, and I just installed it so I'll restart Epi and let you know if that helped.

Ok, now it's ticking me off. With both your package and the extension installed, checked in just about every permutation under the sun, an MLB video in Fx3 insists that I need to install Silverlight. This wouldn't be nearly as frustrating if I hadn't been able to successfully see the MLB's Silverlight content in the past.

/me growls in the driection of Redmond

**directhex** · January 10th, 2009

Originally Posted by DJ_Peng

Animusic! Now that's a cool test page! :8) It's weird, I was able to see the pages for MLB.com before I did my recent reinstall but it isn't working now. I see on the Moonlight project page that it recommends having ffmpeg to see the media content, and I just installed it so I'll restart Epi and let you know if that helped.

Ok, now it's ticking me off. With both your package and the extension installed, checked in just about every permutation under the sun, an MLB video in Fx3 insists that I need to install Silverlight. This wouldn't be nearly as frustrating if I hadn't been able to successfully see the MLB's Silverlight content in the past.

/me growls in the driection of Redmond

It probably needs SL2 then