Netflix Desktop

Netflix-Desktop wont start.... "Wine cant find ... Firefox.exe"

Asked by Curtis Benham

I'm having a similar problem as Dwayne, except his fix didn't work for me... I tried going into "configure Wine" to add the application but couldn't find it either. I did a Firefox install, which completed and a link showed up on my desktop; however, Netflix-Desktop --showdebug still reports it can't finde Firefox.exe ... and I can't find it listed in "Configure Wine". I'm running UBUNTU 12.04 LTS without Windows (it is not a dual-boot machine). I'm thinking that ConfigWine ought to show the Firefox application in the GUI... but it doesn't.

curtis@--------:~$ netflix-desktop --showdebug
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# OpenGL Diagnostics #
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Direct Rendering: Yes
OpenGL Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL Renderer: AMD Radeon HD 6290 Graphics
OpenGL Version: 4.2.12337 Compatibility Profile Context 13.30
GLX Version: 1.4
################################################################################
# Firefox #
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wine: cannot find 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe'

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Erich E. Hoover (ehoover) said : 		#1

Can you tell me which bug/question you're referencing? Usually when this happens you need to wipe the profile folder (rm -Rf $HOME/.wine-browser).

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Curtis Benham (cbplummerguy) said : 		#2

Hello Erich,

     Well... I was looking at Bug# 108551 in which you recommended:

rm -Rf ~/.netflix-desktop
netflix-desktop

     Unfortunately, this did not solve the problem; HOWEVER, after doing
your recommended "rm -RF $HOME/.wine-browser", I ran netflix-desktop
--showdebug from the command line. A whole bunch of stuff happened - wine
configuration, "fixme" processes, etc. and then netflix-desktop worked. A
very BIG THANKYOU!

     I'm a former Windows "semi-power" user who finally had enough of Mr.
Gates taking over my machine whenever he felt like it. Now I'm a Ubuntu
"noob". It's been a bit of a rocky ride - had to reinstall a couple
times. Once Mr. Gates ran CHKDSK and wiped out my Ubuntu OS, so now I no
longer even do a dual-boot. Once again, thanks... I have sooo much to
learn about LINUX.

Regards,

Curtis

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Erich E. Hoover <
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Erich E. Hoover (ehoover) said : 		#3

No problem Curtis, I'm glad the solution was so simple. You might also want to be aware that if you install "pipelight" (http://pipelight.net/cms/installation.html) then you can use the Silverlight plugin directly in your normal browser. Doing this also means that netflix-desktop uses your Linux Firefox browser instead of running the Windows Firefox browser, which is much faster and can help a lot if you have any performance issues.

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Thales BS (hlessi) said : 		#4

I have installed the netflix desktop on my lubuntu, but when i try to run netflix-desktop this message keeps showing:

fixme:winediag:start_process Wine Staging is a testing version containing experimental patches.
fixme:winediag:start_process Please report bugs at http://bugs.wine-staging.com (instead of winehq.org).

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Thales BS (hlessi) said : 		#5

I have installed the netflix desktop on my lubuntu, but when i try to run netflix-desktop this message keeps showing:

fixme:winediag:start_process Wine Staging is a testing version containing experimental patches.
fixme:winediag:start_process Please report bugs at http://bugs.wine-staging.com (instead of winehq.org).

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Erich E. Hoover (ehoover) said : 		#6

Thales BS, are you asking if this message is a problem or are you running into some other issue?

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