Just saw that they have a PPA for Netflix under WINE at iheartubuntu. Any chance we could the same thing for openSUSE?
This worked for me:
- Go to
https://launchpad.net/~ehoover/+archive/compholio/+packages
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Expand the link “wine-compholio-1.5.18~raring”.
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Download the package “wine-compholio_1.5.18~raring.tar.gz”.
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Uncompress this package into a folder and then compile and install this version of wine.
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Get the Silverlight package
http://www.oldapps.com/silverlight.php?old_silverlight=11?download
and Firefox 14
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-14.0.1-funnelcake13&os=win&lang=en-US
- Install both using your new version of wine.
Netflix worked although it was a bit jerky. Maybe some additional tweaking will help.
Is there a way to do this without compiling WINE?
I dont usually install apps from source code so I am unsure what to do.
Probably not until someone makes an .rpm package out of the patched wine version.
The general process to install from source is to uncompress the source to a folder, open a terminal in that folder, execute “./configure”, satisfy any dependencies that “configure” complains about, keep rerunning “./configure” until all dependencies are met, then execute “make” and then as root execute “make install”. You can always undo what you have done by running (as root) “make uninstall”. This process works for the wine source and is unlikely to make any irreversible changes in your installation. As always, though, YMMV.
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I found this today:
http://www.compholio.com/wine-compholio/download.php?file=wine-compholio-1.5.18.i386.rpm
It installs wine into the folder “/opt/wine-compholio/”. You will need to run wine explicitly from this location. I uninstalled my compiled version of wine and installed this one. It works the same as the compiled version, that is, I get choppy video. This is not a universal problem and its cause has not been found, as far as I have been able to tell. Maybe you will have better results.
So what command do I have to do to get this all working?
I have both the silverlight and firefox .exe’s in my downloads folder and installed the modded WINE but dont know what command I should run here.
You would open a terminal in “/opt/wine-compholio/bin” and then run
wine </path/to/silverlight installer>
and then
wine </path/to/firefox installer>
Then run
wine </path/to/firefox.exe>
(usually ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe).
If you don’t already have another version of wine installed you can simplify this by adding the directory “/opt/wine-compholio/bin” to your path.
I got it, thanks.
But now I am having another issue.
I am unsure if this is a normal issue or not but it seems that if my computer goes into screensaver mode the app no longer works for some ofd bizarre rerason and I have to reset.
Is this an issue of some kind?
I am going to turn the screensaver options and power saving options off to see what happens but its a very odd bug that I know cant be resolved due to the nature of the workaround.
Edit : no the issue happens when I restart the computer, thats simply peachy.
I wonder if it has something to do with sudo and permissions or something like that.
I may want to try this out on a virtual install on Ubuntu tio see if the issue arises on it.
Update: so it is a bug with this, they have a patch for it.
Question is, how do I apply the patch?
Also I hate double posting but that is the issue with limiting posts 10 minutes to be edited.
I have not experienced this problem, however I ended up going back to the source code install since it seemed less messy. To test what you are describing I started up a movie in Netflix, then I suspended (to ram) my system. I then resumed it and the movie I was watching continued to play where it left off.
Maybe the source I am using (wine-compholio_1.5.19~precise.tar.gz) has the patch that you are talking about. The .rpm that was available was based on the 1.5.18 version. I see that that version has been removed from the download site and a new package based on 1.5.19 has been posted. Only the .deb package appears to be available now, but I assume that a .rpm package will appear soon.
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:56:01 +0000, MadmanRB wrote:
> Also I hate double posting but that is the issue with limiting posts 10
> minutes to be edited.
http://forums.opensuse.org/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_edit_time
Don’t worry about “double posting”, that’s just fine here.
Jim
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Yeah, but still how do I apply the patch?
I haven’t seen the patch you are talking about but usually patches are applied to source code. Unless you want to go ahead and compile the thing yourself (and if you do you could use the 1.5.19 version and probably not need to patch it) you will need to wait for the updated .rpm version to be released.
Well yes I cxould apply it to the source code, that is probably the easy part.
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:06:01 +0000, MadmanRB wrote:
> Yeah, but still how do I apply the patch?
I haven’t done this myself because I just run Netflix on my PS3 or via a
Windows VM.
But the usual way to apply a patch is to apply it to the source code
(it’ll include instructions generally) and compile the code manually.
But you asked two things (or asked one thing and made a comment). I was
commenting on the comment, since that was something I could help with. 
Jim
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In case you want to follow this yourself the relevant web page is
If you look at the “Downloads” section you will see a link titled “Download wine-compholio 1.5.19 for Ubuntu/Debian”. I would expect that in a couple of days a new link probably titled something like “Download wine-compholio 1.5.19 for Fedora” will appear with the package in .rpm format.
There are also links to all the updated source code packages if you want to give that a try.
Sigh no it doesnt work either way unless we all use ubuntu right now…
darn
Unless someone who works on the opensuse packages can make one using the source code.
I did try to convert the newest one via alien but its a no go.
For now I guess I can install ubuntu in virtualbox.
For those who are interested, the “choppy video” problem when running Netflix in wine appears to have been fixed.
I compiled the wine version found here:
https://launchpad.net/~ehoover/+archive/compholio/+files/wine-compholio_1.5.19%7Eprecise1.tar.gz
and then installed the Silverlight and Firefox versions that I linked to earlier in this thread.
It’s not a native Linux solution, but you take what you can get…