Streaming+Netflix+on+Linux

=How to set up a Linux box to stream Netflix=

=This should be no longer needed thanks to Netflix abandoning Silverlight and the DRM nonsense!=

So here's a spot of fun. Netflix is great for those long nights in the lab to catch up on shows you're inevitably missing to do science and whatnot. But because Netflix streaming uses DRM and the opensource equivalent to Silverlight (called Moonlight) does not use DRM... there will be no native support on a Linux box. But Linux users are geeks and figured out how to do this. Here we go. I'm running Linux Mint 15 and this will work on virtually any Debian based derivative.

code format="bash" sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop code

Done. :)

Just run netflix-desktop (it should be in $PATH already) in the terminal and click your way through the prompts. The final product is a specially made Firefox browser which uses Wine to run Silverlight.

TPP 07/01/14