How to install Silverlight in Ubuntu?

Question

How do I install Silverlight plugin in Ubuntu? And how to configure browser with Silverlight plugin?

Answer 1

You cannot install Silverlight in Ubuntu since it is a proprietary Microsoft plugin that does not work with Linux. If you need silverlight functionality you can try your luck with Pipelight which is an open source implementation of this.

You can install pipelight directly from their ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends pipelight-multi
sudo pipelight-plugin --update

Answer 2

Here's how you can install it.

Open a terminal window. Type in the following commands then hit Enter after each:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pipelight
sudo pipelight-plugin --update
sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight

Answer 3

silverlight is not available for Ubuntu.

but you can use the free implementation of it:

pipelight or moonlight

sudo apt-get install moonlight-plugin-core moonlight-plugin-mozilla

or

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pipelight

edit: just discovered that moonlight seems no more under active development [http://www.mono-project.com/docs/web/moonlight/]

Answer 4

From mono-project.com:

Moonlight isn’t actively developed anymore. If you’re feeling adventurous you can probably get it working by compiling from source, but we recommend you move away from Moonlight as soon as possible.