How to install moonlight on fedora 16

rahul36 · #1 17th January 2012, 07:12 AM

I am newbie on linux Os. Can anyone guide me how to install moonlight on firefox. I tried to install it directly from go-mono.com. But after downloading the file it said "Moonlight cannot be installed on version 9 of firefox.
Pls help me.

bonedome · #2 17th January 2012, 07:29 AM

It can be done, you just need to raise the (firefox) version number
I've got to go to work now, more later

rahul36 · #3 17th January 2012, 11:43 AM

How to raise the firefox version number. I think i have the latest firefox version that is version 9.Can anybody pls help me on how to install moonlight.

bonedome · #4 17th January 2012, 10:00 PM

Hello again
I have novell moonlight which I installed a while ago so I'm not sure it's the same thing you have but it works on the silverlight websites I've tried, in your home directory is a hidden file .mozilla dig right down to the install.rdf i.e .mozilla/firefox/63ixi0xc.default/extensions/moonlight@novell.com/install.rdf
the "63ixi0xc.default" will most probably be different on your system.
open the install.rdf and look for this line

Code:

<em:maxversion>9.0.*</em:maxversion>

and change it to the version of firefox you have, you can do this with most addons btw, I haven't tried it but you could probably replace the version number with * and it'll never need updating.
You may then need to restart firefox
Hope this helps

marvin_ita · #5 17th January 2012, 10:16 PM

There's no need to modify files. You just have to install a firefox extension named "Addon compatibility reporter" before of Moonlight. The first extension let you disable the compatibility check of addons with the current version of firefox, so it will let you install Moonlight even if it is reported to work only with lower versions of firefox.

steliyan10 · #6 6th February 2012, 02:51 AM

The "Addon Compatibility Reporter" wont work as Firefox v.10 effectivelly disable the feature which allows uncompatible add-ons to be force installed.

So the question is how do we get around this issue and install moonlight as biathlon games are comming up on eurosport and i wouldn't want to go back to windows to watch them.

thanks

oliveryty · #7 6th February 2012, 03:29 AM

what's moonlight for?

nonamedotc · #8 6th February 2012, 05:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oliveryty

what's moonlight for?

Moonlight is an open source version of silverlight. Here is the project page.

sea · #9 6th February 2012, 12:43 PM

I just wonder why one changes from windows to linux, to install 'm$' derviate (even opensource pendant) software?
So far i havent come by of any site causing issues, and i didnt install moonlight.

imho its just the same with flash, both are technologies mainly used for multimedia on the web, with html5 beeing around the corner, they both will (hopefully) be useless soon.

EDIT:
I admit, i have flash repo installed

marvin_ita · #10 6th February 2012, 05:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by steliyan10

The "Addon Compatibility Reporter" wont work as Firefox v.10 effectivelly disable the feature which allows uncompatible add-ons to be force installed.

So the question is how do we get around this issue and install moonlight as biathlon games are comming up on eurosport and i wouldn't want to go back to windows to watch them.

thanks

I have Firefox 10 with compatibility reporter and Novell Moonlight working...