Thanks for the replies. I'll give Chromium/widevine a go.

I am a new user to Linux. I have SUSE 13.2 I am trying to apply these solutions but no matter what I do I cannot make them actually do anyhting. Is there any way that you could tell me in simple language how to mske the widevine or pipelight extensions work in Chromium? I can see the directories but cannot get anything to use them in Yast or out of Yast. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also if one of you could tell me how to actually see the contents of a USB drive I would appreciate that as well.

The instructions here are for Slackware only. You'd need to recompile your chromium the same way Alien Bob does to enable support for the plugins needed for Netflix. There's probably a working solution for Suse, but I don't know where you'd find it.

I *think* you can just use Chrome and get it that way (never used it since I don't have Netflix), rather than dealing with the hassle of getting Chromium compiled the right way.

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Yup. Patrick ships a slackbuild script for Google Chrome in the /extra directory. So you just download Chrome from Google and run the script and a Google Chrome package is created in /tmp.
The easiest way for me to use Netflix is to download Eric's Chromium packages.

P.S. prbeck: If you plan to stay with Suse I would ask for help on their forum. Our solutions are Slackware specific.

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Sorry if I am on the wrong group. I would try the Chromium download but I am not sure which one Eric is. I would appreciate a link if I could trouble you further.

Is Slackware easier to use than Suse? Trying to get basic information on Suse is problematic - sometimes I can find it and sometimes I can't. I would appreciate any input from you, and really appreciate you taking the time to help me.

My solution wasn't slackware specific in the long run but after running Pipelight for a few months (and praising AlienBob with every passing hour ) I found that although it ran flawlessly in and of itself I have to agree with OP that spoofing can come at a cost and I didn't like it and some of the problems it caused me. Most were quite minor but it did "open a door" that I had to remember to watch out for as it identified my system to all sites I visited as another windows box.

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no good" and when my old monitor refused to power on and I got about an hour into taking it apart I yelled "Huzzah!" "'Sblood!" and "Fugettabottit!" and spent 200 bux on a 32 inch Vizio Smart TV which gave me a LOT of screen real estate at 1080p (1920 x 1080) plus a remote which includes 3 buttons labelled "Netflix, Amazon, and IHeart Radio". So I unspoofed Firefox and have been very happy ever since.

PS The next tool that will likely touch my old monitor will probably employ explosives :P

Only Slackware has a Chromium package with working Netflix support through the use of a Widevine plugin which has been extracted from the Google Chrome RPM. As far as I know, other distros have been unable to reproduce my setup.
If you want to know more, read http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/watc...time-for-real/ for instance.

If you are running SuSE then please don't bother with Slackware packages, you will not be able to make them run. Your best option is to download Google Chrome for your distribution and use that to watch Netflix.

I can watch Netflix just fine with Arch's Chromium and the chromium-widevine package from AUR, so at least one other distro was able to do that.

Ah, perhaps bcause I pointed them to the solution in Jan 2015?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/c.../?comments=all

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1. Eric provides 32 bit and 64 bit packages for Chromium: download the pepper flash, widevine, and chromium packages for your type of PC.

2. If you're going to consider Slackware then I suggest that you first read the ample documentation on how to install, set-up Slackware. The only daunting part of the installation process is disk partitioning. You will be successful if you understand the process. Easier is a relative term depending on your skill set. I prefer Slackware over Suse, but, that is my preference. Check out the information. We are here to help if you need some guidance.

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Hi Bob. Could you walk me through the steps necessary for a novice to make this happen? I am already using Chromium
Version 48.0.2564.116 Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on Zorin 9.

I've been playing around with User Agent Switchers and I'm not getting it.

I'm new so it would be helpful if your instructions were tediously specific.

Thanks
Jesse

He has made specific compilation options in his chromium package to support using the pepperflash plugin (that he extracts from Chrome and makes available as a Slackware package). The chromium package from Ubuntu likely doesn't have these customizations. You'd probably be best finding a setup that works specifically for Ubuntu, and the easiest would probably be to just install Chrome.

I was using Chrome when it gave me notice that it would no longer be supported on the Linux platform by the middle of this month.

I'm not a developer or engineer. I'm just some guy struggling to make Linux work and if I'm hearing you correctly, I need to install his version of Chromium so the patch functions.

Can I overwrite my current version of Chromium with his or should I make a clean install? How would I do that from the files he's linked?

I believe this is because Chrome is no longer providing 32bit builds. If your computer supports 64bit (which most do), it might be time to switch to that. The 64bit version of Chrome will continue to be supported on Linux. That being said, you're still able to compile future versions of Chromium as a 32bit pprogram, but, AFAIK, you won't be able to use an updated pepperflash plugin, as it will likely only be provided as a 64bit plugin (which would still need to be extracted from Chrome).

His version is a Slackware package that won't work on Ubuntu.

I think your best two options are to either 1. continue using your 32bit Chrome and just not receive any updates (probably not the best option, as you won't get any security updates), or 2. switch your Ubuntu install to a 64bit (would likely require installing) and keep your Chrome up to date.

Since Chrome/Chromium plugins are also 32bit and 64bit, installing a 32bit version of Chromium that does support pepperflash (which you'd probably have to compile yourself), will limit your pepperflash version to the latest 32bit that Google released (likely the version you're using now), so your flash will be out of date and possibly (eventually) have security exploits that could be used against you. My best recommendation is to switch from 32bit to 64bit if your computer supports it.

Thanks for this thread. Recently, and I had no idea why there would be any changes that could affect my 32 bit Chrome install, Chrome stopped working with the "missing libgnutils" message for which there are many posts on the web where it now calls for 2 conflicting libs. I still don't understand why mine ceased to work since it should be sacrosanct on my system, but at least now my motivation to seek a cure is nil. Chrome was decent but hardly compelling for me. I will not go to a 64bit multilib system until I absolutely am forced to or Wine (for gaming) gets a 64bit version independent of 32 bit libs.