Restart your system once you are done with these commands. This will be done when you are logged in your Netflix account. Go to your account settings and look for Playback Settings there:. There used to be an unofficial Netflix desktop app for Ubuntu. This app ran Wine in the background so not really a native Linux desktop app. This application has been discontinued and there is no other desktop app for Netflix anymore. The only way to watch Netflix on Linux is through the web browser.
Popcorn Time is a torrent based streaming service that has Netflix like interface. I hope this tutorial helped you to use Netflix in Ubuntu. Any questions or suggestions are always welcomed.
Also a movie buff with a soft corner for film noir. Yep, Linux browsers now will not play Netflix at all as of June Netflix has done something and not been helpful or honest. Best thing to do is cancel Netflix.
Seems something recently changed with Netflix re Linux. All worked fine previously. System is Linux Mint Cinnamon Linux Mint Cinnamon I called the Netflix help line and the very sympathetically told me that Netflix does not support Linux, and that I should try Linux venues for assistance. Seems Netflix is periodically updating things as does Microsoft , and I suspect may be the culprit. Hello, Same here. Nothing is written for Linux. Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab.
After logging in you can close it and return to this page. Netflix running in Google Chrome on Ubuntu. Cannot find libnss3 in Ubuntu This client does require the installation of the following extras:. I will walk you through the installation of this on a Ubuntu I have also tested this same installation on both Linux Mint and Deepin — all with the same success.
If you like living on the bleeding edge, you can get the full Netflix experience, without having to go through the steps I outline here. For that, you must be running the latest developer or beta release of Google Chrome with the Ubuntu NOTE: You will also have to upgrade libnss3 32 bit or 64 bit. The easiest way to do this is to install the User Agent Switcher Extension. The majority of this installation will happen through the command line, so be prepared to either type or cut and paste.
The first thing you must do is open up a terminal window. Once that is opened, issue the following comands to add the correct repository, update apt-get, and install the software. There are two pieces of software to be installed. The first is the actual Netflix Desktop app.
The second is the msttcorefonts package that cannot be installed by the Netflix Desktop client all other dependencies are installed through the Netflix Desktop client.
The two commands you need to issue are:. The installation of the netflix-desktop package will take some time as there are a number of dependencies it must first install. To do this in Ubuntu , open up the Dash and type netflix.
When you see the launcher appear, click on it to start the client. When you first run the Netflix Desktop Client you will be required to first install Mono.
Wine will take care of this for you, but you do have to okay the installer. When prompted, click Install Figure 1 and the Wine installer will take care of the rest. You will also be prompted to allow Wine to install Gecko as well.
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