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      id="net-install-moonlight">
  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="net-browser"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.2" date="2011-09-26" status="final"/>
    
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Phil Bull</name>
      <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>

    <desc>Some websites use Silverlight to display web pages. The Moonlight plug-in lets you view these pages.</desc>
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<title>Install the Silverlight plug-in</title>

<comment>
<cite>shaunm</cite>
<p>Would be nice to (soft?) link to a page on the software installer</p>
</comment>

<p><app>Silverlight</app> is a <em>plug-in</em> for your web browser which allows you to watch videos and use interactive web pages on some websites. Some websites won't work without Silverlight.</p>

<p>If you view a Silverlight-enabled website but don't have the plug-in installed, you will probably see a message telling you so. This message should have instructions telling you how to get the plug-in, but these instructions might not be suitable for your web browser or version of Linux.</p>

<p>If you want to view Silverlight-enabled websites, you should install the <em>Moonlight</em> plug-in instead. This is a free, open-source version of Silverlight which runs on Linux.</p>

<p>Some Linux distributions have a copy of Moonlight that you can install using their software installer; just open the installer and search for <input>Silverlight</input> or <input>Moonlight</input>.</p>

<p>If your distribution doesn't have a Moonlight software package, see the <link href="http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/">Moonlight website</link> for more information and installation instructions.</p>

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