netflix crashes every time because silverlight stops working?

**drazzah** · April 12th, 2013

Hi,
I don't know much at all about Ubuntu and using it; due to unforeseen circumstances I now have my boyfriend's laptop for the month which runs ubuntu. Anyways, while using netflix via wine, it told me to update silverlight. So, stupidly, I did so not knowing that I shouldn't have. So when I installed the latest version of silverlight, netflix stopped working properly. Everytime I open netflix using netflix-desktop in terminal, the plugin crashes and netflix freezes.

So my question is: is there any way to fix this? I attempted to uninstall silverlight but I haven't found out how. Anything complicated on ubuntu goes totally over my head.. but if anyone knows how to do this to fix netflix, I'd appreciate it.

I'm not sure if anyone needs this info, but I have an Asus N61JQ and I have ubuntu version 12.04 LTS.

Thanks.

**anoldone** · April 12th, 2013

Two ways to uninstall are listed under Wine's FAQ:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893...a17aaf2e69b391

**ernestj** · April 12th, 2013

i pasted the command exactly like they are written in the instructions and nothing happened.

in the terminal it just acted like i put nothing in there.

is there a command that i add to the code on the above website for wine?

Ernie

**kurt18947** · April 12th, 2013

Originally Posted by ernestj

i pasted the command exactly like they are written in the instructions and nothing happened.

in the terminal it just acted like i put nothing in there.

is there a command that i add to the code on the above website for wine?

Ernie

That might be a good thing. If you see no feedback from a terminal command, it most likely did what you asked. You should get some response if it DIDN'T succeed.

**anoldone** · April 12th, 2013

Code:

wine uninstaller

Opens "Add/Remove Programs" window for me which lists currently installed applications.

**compholio** · April 25th, 2013

If you update the netflix-desktop package to the latest version (0.7.0) and wipe the profile folder (rm -Rf ~/.wine-browser) then when you relaunch netflix-desktop it should automatically create a new profile with the correct version of Silverlight.