A few weeks ago mentioned on Twitter that he had been unable to run Silverlight on his brand new Macbook Air: I have never been able to run Silverlight on my 3 month old Macbook Air. Can someone help me solve this? — Aaron Brazell (@technosailor) This intrigued me, as many random things do. I love attempting to resolve obscure issues, and after watching him struggle for a few days I decided to help out. I spent about an hour, and learned some really cool things about the installation process for Mac apps packaged as ‘.pkg’ files, and how to go about installing them manually. I had a hard time finding the information anywhere, and figured that, while this is somewhat specific to Silverlight, that it may be useful to others. Although I use a Mac, and love the beauty of it’s UI, I spend most of my time on the command line. Having problems installing Silverlight for Mac - Answered by a verified Mac Support Specialist We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website. By continuing to use this site you consent to the use of cookies on your device as described in our cookie policy unless you have disabled them. Downloaded Silverlight for Mac but when applied a really long message dominates my screen that starts with.unauthorizedAccess_10denial_path. I am a novice so a bit frustrating! My laptop is a Mac boo. I am a Linux Systems/DevOps Engineer by trade, so I of course interact with most of my daily tasks from the command line. I needed to download a copy of the Silverlight.dmg file, but quickly found that if you hit the site, and already have Silverlight installed you couldn’t get to the download. Fortunately they link you to an on their site, so I just deleted the paths specified there: rm -rf /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin /Library/Receipts/Silverlight.pkg /Library/Receipts/Silverlight_W2_MIX.pkg /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/WPFe.plugin /Library/Receipts/WPFe.pkg I restarted my browser, hit the site again, and downloaded the Silverlight.dmg file. I did take this opportunity, to inspect my HTTP requests from my browser, and determined the actual URL where the file lives for future reference. After downloading and double clicking to mount, you can just navigate directly into /Volumes/Silverlight/Silverlight.pkg from the command line. Excel mac control for alt enter. On Mac ‘.app’ and ‘.pkg’ as well as many other items that appear to be files, are actually just specially named directories. Mac styles them to look like files. If you really want, you can right click on such an item and select ‘Show Package Contents’. Once inside, I took a look around, and quickly noticed that the Contents/Archive.pax.gz file was where the majority of the data was located based on size, and looking in the Contents/Resources directory, I found some simple shell scripts and perl scripts. There is an InstallationCheck perl script, that is used to validate that your system meets the requirements. After looking into it, I couldn’t determine why it would fail to succeed, and neither could Aaron. Attempting to modify this file and install, resulted in the installer reporting some generic error, which was the result of the signature of the InstallationCheck file being different than the stored value. With that option gone, I took a look at the other files. I found preflight was a shell script version of the uninstall instructions on the site. And postflight went around cleaning some things up and generating CPU specific optimized libraries for Silverlight to use, as opposed to just-in-time compilation. Back to Archive.pax.gz I quickly recognized the ‘.gz’ extension, as that is a standard file extension. I however, did not recognize the ‘.pax’ file extension, although after reading ), I am a little surprised I didn’t. In any case, after gunzipping and unarchiving using pax, You basically get a directory hierarchy that can be dropped into the root (/) partition on your Mac. So to keep from wasting any more of your time, let’s get on to the actual steps to get it working: Note: I wouldn’t try just copy/pasting that whole block. Run each command separately to avoid potential issue. Gents - noob q's we all know flash is a battery eater so to prevent this is install click to flash then it will indicate every pages that runs flash has this word 'flash' on webpage which is good thing. Now, i am a netflix subscriber and to watch movies you have to install microsoft silverlight. I dont have any choice to install it. If i open a webpage for example cnn.com yahoo.com etc. How can i determine that those sites are using silverlight? I believe silverlight will cause battery consumption like flash right?
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