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How to get Netflix streaming on Ubuntu 12.10

I followed the instructions to the letter, and i can now get to the netflix site, but when I try to play a show I get a 1001 error. This tells me that silverlight isn't functioning properly. I have uninstalled and re installed wine and I am not seeing any change........any thoughts?

RESOLVED: i deleted wine and netflix-desktop, did an autoremove, and updated again. I added the repository again and reinstalled the netflix-desktop and presto, netflix is now running my little Ubuntu 12.10 box again.

And that is that...

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This looks very interesting. Will it run on Ubuntu 12.04?

I'm running it on kubuntu 12.04

Excellent! Thanks. I'll give it a try.

I decided to stay with 11.10 because I'm stuck with my Dell 1525 still and I think that the upgrade will slow down my laptop.
So, I've tried to install netflix following these steps but I receive this error "unable to locate the package netflix-desktop" (the message is in spanish, so this is my translation of it).
Is there a way to install it in 11.10?
Thanks

For some reason the Netflix application does not work. I did what you said, then after I installed the .NET and HTML wine, it closed. When I tried to open it, nothing happened. I am running Ubuntu Server on my desktop computer, with the version 12.04. Any ideas?

Followed the instructions and everything installed fine. Though I noticed that a i386 version of wine is installed and my Mint 14 kernel i 64 bit.
I was able to log on bring up the netflix site (Danish subscription) and login and was able to browse all the available movies. Happy so far
So I was very disapointed when I clicked a movie and my screen went black. The movie did not play

I'm sad to say the exact same thing happened to me on Ubuntu 12.04 - 64 bit. Real bummer.

..does not install X-windows or a GUI (Unity, Gnome)... Unless you've added these to Server, it won't do anything.

But if you *have* added a GUI to Server, why don't you just install the Desktop edition? (Jack's procedure assumes that this is the case.)

It works wonderful in Pear Linux 6. Thanks for posting this.

on Slackware 13.37. Let the tweaking begin!

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and untenops said he's runing Kubuntu 12.04 and he had no problem. So this installation should work on my computer. Right?

I followed Jack's instructions carefully. After completing the preliminary steps, I typed "netflix" in the Unity Dash, then clicked on "install" for the "Wine Mono Installer". Finally I clicked on "install" for the "Wine Gecko Installer". I got an error that said, "Firefox: Couldn't load XPCOM". So I just clicked on the "Ok" button because Jack said to ignore any errors, that he did and "everything worked fine". Wrong! Nothing happened after I clicked the "Ok" button except the error went away. The Netflix application did not run at all. No new Firefox icon appeared on my desktop.

If I try to run Netflix in the Dash all I get is the same error.

So what gives? What is XPCOM? And what am I missing? And if I can't get this thing to work, how do I remove all the now-useless stuff in my computer?

sudo apt-get remove netflix-desktop

will remove the netxflix package for you. You can also either remove Wine afterward, or simply enter

rm ~/.wine

to (permanently) delete your Wine 'environment', which contains the Mono & Gecko installation you also performed. Of course, it will also delete anything else you've previously installed in Wine...

But this all begs the question: Has anyone tried/succeeded in installing this using Crossover? Crossover provides two potential advantages here:

1.) You can install in a separate "Wine Bottle" environment, independent of any other Wine app installations you may have -- no interaction, clobbering, or removal issues with other software you've spent time getting to run.

2.) Crossover has much better support to get things like Mono & Gecko properly installed & configured (with such assistance as automatic selection & installation of DLLs that are required -- whether you know you need them or not).

Has anyone done this?

im new to Ubuntu, but the guide is perfect, works the first try. thanks

I have had the netflix-desktop working for a few week, however today I began having the error n8156-6013 and it says it's a DRM issue. Any Ideas?

Not working for me. I started download everything was going fine asked to download mono, then it stopped installing with out any notice or any prompt after like (finish install) I have the icon, if I click it nothing happens if go from filesystem /usr/share/application : click on netflix it will show up in the launcher but then disappears.

I have tried
rm -Rf ~/.netflix-desktop
then the reinstall

Also
sudo apt-get --purge remove netflix-desktop
sudo apt-get autoremove
brings out files from the install
then sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
then reinstall

Not sure what it is missing or I am missing.
Running Ubuntu 12.04
AMD Phenomll X6
16 Gig of ddr3 1333 crucial memory
2TB Seagate 6gbps satalll with tons of room

So it asked to install (wine gecko) and I did the it asked to install (mono) I did then it stopped and know I'm lost.

Thanks Tech Republic for this publication Thanks to Erich Hoover. Wine, Firefox and Silverlight. I'm new to Ubuntu but I could make it to happen since the very first try out...Netflix is working great!

Gracias Tech Republic. Gracias a Erich Hoover, Wine, Firefox y Silverlight. Aunque soy novato en Ubuntu, logre la instalacion desde mi primer intento. Netflix esta trabajando formidable!

Got as far as "Issue the command sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop". Teminal displayed an EULA for (apparently) installing some fonts. At the end there's " ", but no response when I hit Enter, click on , &c. Rebooted, repeated, same situation.

I am super noob in Linux/Ubuntu so please talk slow and use small words if you have any advice. Thank you in advance.

Since you're in a terminal, you're going to have to use the TAB key to get from selection to selection. Just hit the tab key to get to okay, then enter, and use the tab key again on the next screen to get to the appropriate selection.

I haven't had a chance to try this out yet as I've been away from home for several weeks but I will after my return. Check out this link if you've been having difficulty getting the procedure in this blog to work. http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/netflix-on-ubuntu-is-here.html

I just wanted to chime in that I followed the instructions exactly and this worked perfectly for me. Thanks!

Works a treat. Damn sight easier than starting Ubuntu, starting a Virtual Box and watching in a nearly-but-not-quite full screen.

Can anyone confirm trying this in ubuntu 12.04 distro? 12.10 was too buggy for me to use.

After registering, I was able to read all of the responses. Yesterday I only got to see 2 of them, so none mentioned 12.04. Still getting mixed results though. You would think they would fix this. I wonder if Hulu has this problem? May be worth the switch. Netflix is starting to act like Mac OS and Microsoft. Greedy and uncaring of it's enduser. First they split the CD delivery and sttreaming content that used to be 10 bucks to 7.99 each. So I stayed with streaming, now we are jumping through hoops tring to get this to play nice with linux. They probably no they definately feel that the linux base is so small that they couldn't give a rats ass. What they are missing though is that a lot of people also use the same service through a roku box, or a DVD player and sometimes dont want to waste the electric of a large screen TV, and just use their 22 in monitor instead. So it isn't only linux users, it is a lot of users who are sick of Netflixes **** you attitude toward its customer base.

Hi-- Successfully installed and had Netflix running well (Thanks). So now Silverlight wants me 'upgrade' my version of Silverlight to allow Netflix to run again. Is there a procedure to do that? I ran Ubuntu software updater hoping it would include the update, but it did not register. (Ubuntu 12.10 64bit)

I am using Mint - 15, I got it to work using the directions, but it is a bit choppy, probably cause I don't have much RAM, my video card is good, but my RAM in only 4 GiG

I am using Mint - 15, I got it to work using the directions, but it is a bit choppy, probably cause I don't have much RAM, my video card is good, but my RAM in only 4 GiG

Took a spare ThinkCentre (7303-BAU) with a clean 40GB hdd, 2 GB RAM, did a clean install of 12.10, got all of the updates, got the restricted extras and WINE from the software center. Then I followed the instructions and Netflix came up on the screen.