Pipelight an alternative to Silverlight for ubuntu, is a special browser plugin which allows one to use windows only plugins inside Linux browsers by embedding Silverlight directly in any Linux browser that supports Netscape Plugin API (Firefox, Google Chrome / Chromium, Opera…).
Pipelight consists out of two parts: A Linux library which is loaded into the browser and a Windows program started in Wine. The Windows program, called pluginloader.exe, simply simulates a browser and loads the Silverlight DLLs.
The latest release 0.2.6 comes with new features and bug fixes:
- Update Silverlight to 5.1.30214.0
- Add ViewRight for Caiway plugin
- Update Flash to 12.0.0.77
- Update Shockwave Player to 12.1.0.150
- Update Roblox plugin
- Added Vizzed RGR plugin
- Add pipelight-plugin commandline switch –list-enabled-all
- Silverlight now works even with less strict user agent settings
- Made pluginloader 64-bit compatible and added experimental 64-bit version of Flash
- Add implementation for NPN_PluginThreadAsyncCall
- Fixed compilation of 32bit pluginloader with wineg++
Install Pipelight 0.2.6 in Ubuntu 14.04
– Run following commands to install Pipelight
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install pipelight sudo pipelight-plugin --update
– Run following commands to enable Silverlight and Flash
sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight sudo pipelight-plugin --enable flash
– To enable Shockwave
sudo pipelight-plugin --unlock shockwave sudo pipelight-plugin --enable shockwave
– Enable Unity Webplayer
sudo pipelight-plugin --enable unity3d
