With the news of Netflix now working in Ubuntu with Google Chrome I wanted to see if it would also work with Debian. As I don’t like Chrome too much and I don’t run Debian unstable, I decided to try it in a chroot setup. This will ofcourse require some diskspace. After installation the setup was around 770MB.

The commands below assume your user has sudo rights through memberschip of the group sudo. This will allow sudo in the chroot enviroment without adjusting the sudo installation.

First decide where to setup the chroot environment. You will need write rights to this directory:

Now we setup the chroot environment.

sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT sudo apt-get install schroot sudo debootstrap --include sudo,libexif12 jessie $CHROOT sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT/run/shm sudo chmod 1777 $CHROOT/run/shm sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 $CHROOT/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0 sudo sh -c "cat - >> /etc/schroot/schroot.conf <

Next we need to install Google Chrome. Choose the right version to download depending on if you are running 32bit or 64bit.

schroot -c netflix # for 64bit wget --no-check-certificate -O /tmp/chrome.deb https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb # for 32bit wget --no-check-certificate -O /tmp/chrome.deb https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i /tmp/chrome.deb sudo apt-get -f install exit

That should be it. You should now be able to start Google Chrome via the chroot setup and get Netflix without any additional plugins.

schroot -c netflix google-chrome http://www.netflix.com [netflix.png netflix.thumb.png]

Seems to work ok :)