Easy Netflix (No WINE needed)

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inktitan · #1 Post by **inktitan** » 2014-10-10 20:53

Feel free to remove this if it has already been addressed.

Ok I never got Netflix-Desktop to work but recently Google did some awesomeness and you can get Netflix to run easy peasy in Chrome 37 or newer. Just install libnss3 3.17
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libnss3 scroll to the bottom for your architecture.
If you already have libnss3-1d it will break due to a dependency on the the older (current) libnss3 3.14. If you do not have libnss3-1d installed you can install libnss3.17 from the above link I used GDebi package installer and can now watch Netflix easy like it should be.

I hope this was helpful and enjoy.

EDIT: I am running Wheezy 64bit with libc6 2.19-11. Though I have had no problems on my system it has been brought to my attention that this setup could cause problems with future updates.

Sepuro77 · #2 Post by **Sepuro77** » 2014-11-13 09:57

Hi,

I never got Netflix to work (with pipelight) either.
So I followed your lead and downloaded "libnss3.17" from the jessie repository. Before installing via GDebi I deinstalled "libnss3-1d" via apt. Everything went flawless. However I am still not able to watch Netlfix with Chrome 38 on my 32bit Wheezy.

Could this be because of a problem with "libc6"? I'm currently running on 2.13-38.
Furthermore I would not be able to install "libnss3-1d" due a dependencies conflict.

I appreciate any help on this

inktitan · #3 Post by **inktitan** » 2014-11-19 05:01

Sorry it took so long for me to respond. I did not get an email. I am testing this on my 32 bit system right now and will get back to you with an answer.

inktitan · #4 Post by **inktitan** » 2014-11-19 05:28

OK I can not get it to work on the 32 bit wheezy. It could be, and I suspect it is, an issue with chrome browser itself. There are some sites that it will not play videos for despite having all the appropriate plugins. Twitch.tv will not run for me at ll in Chrome 32bit but has no problems in 64 bit. I've spent a lot of time trying to figure that issue out and no solution worked. I had always assumed it was a flash problem. Netflix uses Silverlight but now HTML 5 so it should not share the same problem as Twitch but I can not get Netflix to run in Chrome 32 bit. I am sorry I haven't been more helpful and I hope you do find a solution. If you do can you please post it here for me and I will do likewise.

stevepusser · #5 Post by **stevepusser** » 2014-11-19 19:36

No doubt the OP ended up with an updated libc6 from Jessie by getting libnss3 from there, and that will probably cause issues down the road with some packages refusing to install.

We already worked this out over on the MEPIS forums; Chrome includes a library for HTML5 digital rights management called libwidevine.so, and whoever built that plugin (though it does not show in chrome:plugins) did it so that it requires libc6 >=2.14. That's the only part of Chrome that requires that newer libc6, so it runs fine until you try Netflix.

We also backported libnss3 and libnspr4 from Jessie so that they would be safe to install, and then backported libc 6 2.17 (with a lot of trepidation) into its own special repo, but everything ended up working perfectly. The MEPIS 12 packages are
compatible with Wheezy. We have a load of backports in the MEPIS repo, so I'd recommend only upgrading libnss3 at this time, then disabling the MEPIS repos, but leaving the experimental libc6 repository enabled, as there may be other packages you need from it down the road.

libnss3 (MEPIS) repos:
deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis12cr main non-free
deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis12cr test

The libc6 repo:
deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/experimental/ experimental test

So far the libc6 repo has turned out to be safe, and enabled for Wheezy:

Steam
Netflix in Chrome
NEURON
Viber
Google Earth 7
Scrivener (64-bit tested only)
TeamViz

inktitan · #6 Post by **inktitan** » 2014-11-19 22:47

Hey thanks for that info. I am running libc6 2.19-11on my 64 bit. I have not encountered any errors as of yet.

stevepusser · #7 Post by **stevepusser** » 2014-11-20 01:37

If you don't get problems, count yourself as extremely lucky.

As a test, enable multiarch and try to install ia32-libs. You may do it if the Jessie repo is still enabled, but then other problems are in your future...

inktitan · #8 Post by **inktitan** » 2014-11-20 02:07

I disable Jessie repos after I get what I go in for. Enbaling it to install ia32-libs, I get a message that the package is obsoleted or missing. Then it lists lib32z1 and lib32ncurses5 as possible alternatives.

stevepusser · #9 Post by **stevepusser** » 2014-11-20 03:58

Yes, so now Wheezy's ia32-libs can't be installed. I leave it to you to find out how much else is broken in the future.

inktitan · #10 Post by **inktitan** » 2014-11-20 06:11

Nothing on my system has asked for ia32-libs. So I am confused about how this is a problem.

stevepusser · #11 Post by **stevepusser** » 2014-11-20 19:48

You are free to do whatever you want with your system, of course, but it's not a nice thing to give advice that could lead others into breaking their systems. How about reading the advice in the Debian wiki? https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

inktitan · #12 Post by **inktitan** » 2014-11-20 21:44

Very well but you are suggesting that they use mepis which goes against the advice given in your link. I'll edit the OP to reflect a caution.

milomak · #13 Post by **milomak** » 2014-11-20 22:22

am i missing something in this argument?

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$ aptitude show chromium/stable | grep Version
Version: 37.0.2062.120-1~deb7u1

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$ aptitude show chromium/stable | grep libnss
         8c), libnspr4 (>= 2:4.9-2~), libnss3 (>= 2:3.14.3), libpango1.0-0 (>=

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$ aptitude show chromium/stable | grep libc6
Depends: gconf-service, libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libc6 (>= 2.11), libcairo2 (>=

both of these seem to be met in stable

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$ apt-cache policy libnss3 libc6              
libnss3:
  Installed: 2:3.17.2-1
  Candidate: 2:3.17.2-1
  Version table:
 *** 2:3.17.2-1 0
        500 http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        700 http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
        700 http://free.hands.com/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://free.hands.com/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        700 http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:3.14.5-1+deb7u2 0
        500 http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://free.hands.com/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
libc6:
  Installed: 2.19-13
  Candidate: 2.19-13
  Version table:
 *** 2.19-13 0
        500 http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        700 http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
        700 http://free.hands.com/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://free.hands.com/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        700 http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.13-38+deb7u6 0
        500 http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://free.hands.com/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages

inktitan · #14 Post by **inktitan** » 2014-11-20 22:46

Libc6 2.19-11+ does not appear to be in Wheezy main.

milomak · #15 Post by **milomak** » 2014-11-20 23:05

stevepusser - you are part of the package team for libc6?

milomak · #16 Post by **milomak** » 2014-11-20 23:07

inktitan wrote:Libc6 2.19-11+ does not appear to be in Wheezy main.

oh right. i see the problem now. this is not a wheezy package.

did you do this thread before the packages that i saw listed in the repos were available?

stevepusser · #17 Post by **stevepusser** » 2014-11-20 23:08

Well, I don't think of the MEPIS repos as being "random", since we take a lot of care when we backport items to a stable base. We do draw from wheezy-backports as necessary so we don't duplicate their work, but as far as I can tell, libnss3 and libc6 updates from MEPIS won't require wheezy-backports.

and milomak...you are missing something. You have nothing but testing and unstable versions showing in your results.

milomak · #18 Post by **milomak** » 2014-11-20 23:11

stevepusser wrote: and milomak...you are missing something. You have nothing but testing and unstable versions showing in your results.

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     2:3.14.5-1+deb7u2 0
        500 http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://free.hands.com/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages

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     2.13-38+deb7u6 0
        500 http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://free.hands.com/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages

that's not the part i am missing. you just need to scroll down in the code part of the post.

stevepusser · #19 Post by **stevepusser** » 2014-11-20 23:17

milomak wrote:stevepusser - you are part of the package team for libc6?

Not for Debian, but I did backport it for MEPIS. I do have some understanding of how to backport safely, and was tired of seeing many threads here and on MEPIS/MX where people had borked their systems by adding upstream repositories to stable.

Anyway, I also saw that Wheezy-based Steam OS was safely using a backported libc6, so basically copied what they did, then extended it a bit by building a compatible libp11-kit0 from the wheezy-backports source that would work with the new kernel.

Getting back to the Netflix problem, I also managed to port over the netflix-desktop mess over to MEPIS and MX 14 (MX draws from the MEPIS community repos, you need a very specially patched and configured version of Wine for it to work)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFGm6U0j_oQ

stevepusser · #20 Post by **stevepusser** » 2014-11-20 23:19

milomak wrote:
stevepusser wrote: and milomak...you are missing something. You have nothing but testing and unstable versions showing in your results.
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     2:3.14.5-1+deb7u2 0
        500 http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://free.hands.com/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
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     2.13-38+deb7u6 0
        500 http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://free.hands.com/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
that's not the part i am missing. you just need to scroll down in the code part of the post.

Oh, ok....ZOMG! FrankenDebian!

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