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Margorie Gomoran

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Aug 2, 2024, 1:00:23 PM8/2/24

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I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit, which I installed using the original release (not the newer 12.04.2 release), and have been successfully using netflix-desktop ever since the ppa:ehoover/compholio repository was made available. I never encountered any problems, whatsoever, until a couple of days ago.

For those that don't like messing with the console, you can just go to your home directory and either click on "View" and check "Show Hidden Files", or just press Ctrl+H, then scroll down until you see the folder labeled ".wine-browser", perform a right mouse-click on the folder, and select "Move to Trash" from the resulting menu.

I don't think it is the silverlight update which does it. It is Firefox update. So press F11 to get into window mode. Then press F10. Go to Options/Preferences ->Advanced-> updates, then disable the automatic browser update.

In the past, many Linux users had to run virtualization software in order to use the online silverlight based charting software. Now, with the work from Erich Hoover a patch for wine has been created in order to have the propietary silverlight installed. It's silly because it was intended for use with netflix - but with all of this said TC2000 v12 works, and quite decently I might add.

Essentially what it does is install a firefox through wine. After this, you can run the netflix-desktop app, which how you'll view netflix videos if you're using it for what it was intended, or view TC2000 charts...

You'll notice that the browser opens in full screen mode by default, but by pressing f11 you make it into a standard window if need be. You'll also need a way to type in the tc2000 url. This can be done by pressing "ctrl+t" to open a new tab, and then by right cliking to the right of the new tab and checking off navigation toolbar.

Thanks for sharing this info, as I've been wanting to run TC2000 on Linux for a long time. This looked promosing for Ubuntu. Running Ubuntu Precise. Got it started up after it crashed on the first install and it did work for a bit and then sort of froze up. Then it did nothing when trying to start netflix-desktop the second time. Uninstalled, removed the repo, reinstalled repo and appliation. Tried again and still does nothing. It did work the first time. Oh, well. Maybe others will have better luck. Wine is tricky to deal with has been my experience.

Is anyone out there????? I am running Ubuntu Linux on my desktop. Not because I chose it. but because an exboyfriend installed it. I need to download tc2000 but am not able to download Silverlight succesfully.

I have been able to get tc2000 working on 2 linux mint machines. Was not able to get it using directions of akspeculatioins (problems with installing the Hoover ppa, etc). However, doing some google research on hoover led to the pipelight ppa which does the essentially the same function as the hoover. Go to -team.de/cms-pipelight-installation.html and follow the directions. Using Mint, I used the Ubuntu directions. Copied and pasted the teminal commands into a terminal window. When finished, opened my browser to tc2000.com and the silverlight plugin auto installed, then tc2000 opened. Takes less than 5 minutes. Installed on Mint 13 laptop and desktop. Desktop was originally Mint 9 and encountered some problems (can't remember details) so I upgraded 9 to 13 as it had been 3 to 5 years since I installed 9 and 9 is no longer supported.

The url link in the previous posts, -team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.htm no longer works but forwards to a site about Wine Staging. It may be that Wine Staging will do the same functionality as pipelight - I do not know. I do not currently desire to experiment with it. I did locate the following site which is an archive of the pipelight url and has the commands and instructions to install pipelight and the silverlight plugin --

At this page, select one of the Pipelight Installation links and then click on the link for the flavor of linux you have. It will bring up a page with the commands to run in a terminal which will add the pipelight ppa repository to your linux OS and install pipelight. Follow the instructions to add and enable the silverlight plugin. (In my case, when you type the command, silverlight was with a lower case "s").

I had tried and failed to manually add the pipelight ppa repository to my Linux Mint 18 software sources. The commands listed in the above archive worked. All this takes less than 5 minutes to complete and get TC2000 up and running in your web browser.

okay after a multitude of tries I cannot get wine compholio to work properly under openSUSE even with using alien.
So its time to compile this and possibly host my compiled versions here, but how do I compile wine under opensuse.
I want to use the netflix workaround, and the native wine doesdnt cover that.
The only package that is a rpm is an outdated verison and again under alien it simply wont work.
so I want to compile wine, such a pain but maybe I can help others who want netflix on linux to work by doing this.
Instructions are needed please.

Netflix Desktop provides a convient tool that downloads and installs all of the components necessary to run Netflix Watch Instantly under Wine, including the Windows version of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Silverlight v4. This package also includes some convience settings to integrate Netflix into Firefox in such a way that everything feels like a native Ubuntu application.

Let your package manager install it. It did complain about the ttmkfdir (package containing TrueType font utility) being missing, but I ignored that dependency and proceeded with installing netflix-desktop. Then, from a terminal window, I launched it with

Hmm, well I guess that makes sense.
I dont know how to edit the makefile though, I dont know the first thing about source coding.
Now creating links, how can I do that?
Via the terminal that is.

Well I got to learn somehow, all I want is tips to help me out.
Vague instructions and tidbits on a wiki are a start but I need some aid.
Once I know how I am good, I just never did this before.
Once I know how its all good.

I can't get showtime anytime specifically and also a few other streaming services to play anything with google chrome on (arch) Linux or any Linux. They work just fine with windows so it's not an account issue, its a plugin issue as far as I can tell. I can log in just fine and after I've tried to play something it shows that I watched or at least tried to watch anyway and how much time is left(the whole episode/movie length), but nothing ever plays. When trying to get widevine, which I'm guessing is what I need for these services to work, it says chrome for Linux isn't supported....

Is there anything I can do to get showtime anytime working in arch nativity in google chrome for Linux? I've seen write-ups(that were possibly old and outdated) to get a bunch of streaming services such as showtime anytime, HBO to go and others working, but that was for Ubuntu and it was using wine. I'm trying to get that to work as a temporary fix(installing wine atm) just so I don't have to keep switching OS's just to watch a show. If anyone has a better remedy(that doesn't require pirating shows on services that are paid for already), preferably a way for chrome Linux to work I'd be very interested.

I find it quite annoying that with Linux it's much easier for me to pirate the shows that I want to watch than it is to use the services we get with our TV/internet through our isp... Windows has been giving me so much grief lately that using it doesn't see to be a better solution than attempting to use a wine browser in Linux....

I really thought the drm was the issue, but I installed the chromium package with widevine from the link above and it didn't make a difference. Once again Netflix works just fine, I made sure flash was also installed an enabled, I even disabled all extensions... Aside from windows being windows I don't have a problem using google chrome in it to watch showtime anytime, even with all my extensions enabled it just works.

I seriously spent like most of the day messing around with wine trying to get a browser with widevine and flash, I even tried pipelight to get showtime working. I just went to adobe's website and did their flash test, it's working fine. So either the widevine plugin isn't working(I'm sure it's probably fine, though I will be looking for a way to make sure) or it wasn't the issue in the first place.

I'm so lost atm, I've never hated my laptop(my favorite laptop I've ever had.... just dumped nearly $400 into rebuilding it cause it was very broken) so much as I do right now. Between this stupid issue and the weird graphics glitches that randomly seem to come and go I wish I wouldn't have spent so much money on this thing... I seriously had the option of a new laptop but I wanted this one fixed It's an HP Elitebook 2740p it got a a core i5 2.67GHz,160gb ssd, 8gb ram, wacom 2 finger touchscreen and a pen with eraser.

I replaced the motherboard, ssd, ram, display, and keyboard, so nearly everything..... I had it working nicely with windows 8.1, but I really prefer Arch to anything and I absolutely hated windows 8.1, even though it did work so well... The past two or so weeks I've been working on dual booting arch and win 7 pro(laptop came with 7 pro). I wasn't so worried about working out the kinks in Arch because up until like two days ago at least I had everything working in win 7 which very conveniently broke itself updating..............