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Vegita

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Registered: 2009-10-06

Posts: 111

Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

Sorry if there was a topic about this before, but I remember, that some months ago, I could install moonlight by pacman -S moonlight. Now it's not even in aur/yaourt. What exactly happened? I would be surprised, if licensing problems would came, which didn't came with flash, nvidia, skype, etc.

Anyway, I could install it as a firefox extension, but I had to hack it out from my home directory, and it only works with chrome and firefox (neither Opera nor Konqueror). And actually the newest version (moonlight 3 preview) freezes my firefox. Maybe this is even a reason to not be in the repos?

Zerimas

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From: Waterloo, Ontario

Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 21

Re: Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

I am wondering about this as well.  When will we see it back in the AUR?  I want to watch CTV's olympic coverage.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

When we did a ffmpeg rebuild a while ago, moonlight wouldn't buid anymore (at least the newest version).  It was supposed to be readded in extra but I guess ise didn't had the time yet.

Personally, I use the old moonlight package with an old ffmpeg library.  Not ideal but it works.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

here are some builds for it http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87197

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Skripka

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From: 2X1280X1024

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

Re: Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

Anyway, I could install it as a firefox extension, but I had to hack it out from my home directory, and it only works with chrome and firefox (neither Opera nor Konqueror). And actually the newest version (moonlight 3 preview) freezes my firefox. Maybe this is even a reason to not be in the repos?

Weird.

Installing Moonlight 3 Alpha as an extension in Firefox works fine...but it don't work in Chrome or any other browser.

Another vote for getting Moonlight back into repos/AUR here.

Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 651

Re: Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

Count my vote to

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Staerseus

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From: Prague

Registered: 2009-11-07

Posts: 109

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Re: Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

Try this script

http://www.abclinuxu.cz/data/prilohy/2/ … m-30353.sh

Abclinuxu.cz is a czech linux-about server.

http://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/bery/2010/ … -na-linuxu (link for the blog post about olympics)

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cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 469

Re: Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

I'm also finding that Moonlight 2 crashes Firefox (it won't even start) and Moonlight 3 doesn't. But Moonlight 3 also won't play the videos on NBC's site for olympic coverage.

whaler

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 323

Re: Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

I have Moonlight as a Firefox extension, from here:

http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx

The site calls it version 3, preview 3, and it presents itself as 2.99.0.3.

It works okay for the Olympics stuff offered by the Norwegian Broadcasting Co., but I am not very impressed with the interface - unable to set full screen, a.o.t.

StrangeAttractor

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From: Prague, CZ

Registered: 2010-06-14

Posts: 54

Re: Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

I have Moonlight as a Firefox extension, from here:

http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx

Links to XPIs there seem to be dead.

I've installed all the Mono and Moonlight stuff but have no Idea how to actually run a Moonlight application. If I meet a piece of  Silverlight in the Web in Firefox, it just shows a Microsoft's "Download Silverlight" button. I've also wished to try developing a Moonlight application in MonoDevelop (2.4), but build and run options are just greyed there.

DavidS

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From: Norway

Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 1

Re: Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

Links to XPIs there seem to be dead.

Set your UserAgent to Firefox/3.6.3 and try again!

StrangeAttractor

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From: Prague, CZ

Registered: 2010-06-14

Posts: 54

Re: Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

Set your UserAgent to Firefox/3.6.3 and try again!

But I do indeed use Firefox 3.6.3!

retry

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Registered: 2010-05-21

Posts: 9

Re: Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

Link is malformed. Here is the good one. http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/downlo … 7-i586.xpi
Can you spot the difference?

StrangeAttractor

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From: Prague, CZ

Registered: 2010-06-14

Posts: 54

Re: Novell Moonlight removed from pacman repos?

Link is malformed. Here is the good one. http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/downlo … 7-i586.xpi
Can you spot the difference?

This one works. Thanks.