Netflix On Ubuntu

[dniMretsaM]

It appears that the latest 64-bit builds of netflix-desktop failed. Guess I won't be trying it for a while.

[weasel fierce]

I should add, I am on 32 bit.

Doesn't 64 bit Ubuntu support running 32 bit stuff anyways? Might be worth a shot, or is that not so easy?

[dniMretsaM]

Well, I'm downloading the latest build (0.1.0) on my 64-bit Quantal machine. I'll test it out and report back.

EDIT: Everything installs just fine, but I get error 1001 (which is a Silverlight-related issue). I'm going to see if I can get any information from the developer. Will post if I find out anything.

[BluPhenix316]

Well, I'm downloading the latest build (0.1.0) on my 64-bit Quantal machine. I'll test it out and report back.

EDIT: Everything installs just fine, but I get error 1001 (which is a Silverlight-related issue). I'm going to see if I can get any information from the developer. Will post if I find out anything.

I know how to fix the 1001 error. You need to install mscorefonts.

[dniMretsaM]

I know how to fix the 1001 error. You need to install mscorefonts.

Yep, just found that out. Installed it a few minutes ago and it works fine. For those who don't know how, run this command:

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Anyway, some new packages are building as I write this. The netflix-desktop package will automatically pull in ttf-mscorefonts-installer as a dependency, and wine-compholio won't require the removal of vanilla WINE.

Also, there are apparently some issues with the EXT3 filesystem. Not exactly sure what they are or how to fix them, but I know that Erich is working on instructions regarding those problems.

[sdowney717]

Works for me now

I opened synaptic and did a total removal of all wine related stuff

Then add repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio

Then did update
sudo apt-get update

Then did wine install
sudo apt-get install wine-compholio+

Then did netflix desktop install
sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop

I also did winecfg
winecfg

Then find netflix desktop and click on icon, it will do some configuring


interesting to see netflix
this shows the progress, silverlight installs

scott@scott-P5QC:~$  sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libcogl8 libbabl-0.0-0 libgegl-0.0-0 kwrite p7zip kde-baseapps
  libtelepathy-farstream1 apport-hooks-medibuntu plasma-widget-folderview
  libllvm3.0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  netflix-desktop
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,094 kB of archives.
After this operation, 15.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ehoover/compholio/ubuntu/ precise/main netflix-desktop i386 0.1.0~precise8 [6,094 kB]
Fetched 6,094 kB in 7s (790 kB/s)                                              
Selecting previously unselected package netflix-desktop.
(Reading database ... 657708 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking netflix-desktop (from .../netflix-desktop_0.1.0~precise8_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common ...
netflix-desktop: downloading http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-14.0.1-funnelcake13&os=win&lang=en-US
netflix-desktop: downloading http://silverlight.dlservice.microsoft.com/download/6/A/1/6A13C54D-3F35-4082-977A-27F30ECE0F34/10329.00/runtime/Silverlight.exe
netflix-desktop: downloading http://developer.netflix.com/files/Netflix_API2_57x57.png

Silverlight is provided by Microsoft in unmodified form only,
you may not redistribute the software.

Everything downloaded and installed.
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Setting up netflix-desktop (0.1.0~precise8) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...

first pic shows purge existing wine to start fresh
second pic shows netflix running displaying Poirot

Netflix desktop opens in a full screen browser view, how to escape I hit function keys and was able to get a window.

[evilsoup]

I must have done something wrong, since it's not working for me... probably to do with installing it too early, before the PPA was properly ready. I guess I'll ppa-purge, and try again.

[sdowney717]

My video card is likely not powerful enough as I notice that in the time I took to post the prior message with netflix paused, going back to netflix, the window had hung on the video. Hit space bar and the audio started and took a minute for the video to catch up and play.
Running an Nvidia geforce 8400gs with Nvidia drivers
I am on 12.04 ubuntu

[lovinglinux]

Works for me now

I opened synaptic and did a total removal of all wine related stuff

Then add repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio

Then did update
sudo apt-get update

Then did wine install
sudo apt-get install wine-compholio+

Then did netflix desktop install
sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop

I also did winecfg
winecfg

Then find netflix desktop and click on icon, it will do some configuring


interesting to see netflix
this shows the progress, silverlight installs

scott@scott-P5QC:~$  sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libcogl8 libbabl-0.0-0 libgegl-0.0-0 kwrite p7zip kde-baseapps
  libtelepathy-farstream1 apport-hooks-medibuntu plasma-widget-folderview
  libllvm3.0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  netflix-desktop
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,094 kB of archives.
After this operation, 15.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ehoover/compholio/ubuntu/ precise/main netflix-desktop i386 0.1.0~precise8 [6,094 kB]
Fetched 6,094 kB in 7s (790 kB/s)                                              
Selecting previously unselected package netflix-desktop.
(Reading database ... 657708 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking netflix-desktop (from .../netflix-desktop_0.1.0~precise8_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common ...
netflix-desktop: downloading http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-14.0.1-funnelcake13&os=win&lang=en-US
netflix-desktop: downloading http://silverlight.dlservice.microsoft.com/download/6/A/1/6A13C54D-3F35-4082-977A-27F30ECE0F34/10329.00/runtime/Silverlight.exe
netflix-desktop: downloading http://developer.netflix.com/files/Netflix_API2_57x57.png

Silverlight is provided by Microsoft in unmodified form only,
you may not redistribute the software.

Everything downloaded and installed.
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Setting up netflix-desktop (0.1.0~precise8) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...

first pic shows purge existing wine to start fresh
second pic shows netflix running displaying Poirot

Netflix desktop opens in a full screen browser view, how to escape I hit function keys and was able to get a window.

I tried the same method, but it complained about winecfg not being installed and suggested installing wine1.4, which I didn't do. Instead I tried to launch Netflix Desktop and it prompted me to install Mono which I did. After completing Mono download it started and....

IT WORKS!!!!!!! WOOOHOOO!

Thanks a lot for the solution.

[lovinglinux]

After launching Netflix Dekstop, I hit F11 to leave fullscreen mode, then I can use Netflix fullscreen button.