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This is a guide on installing the Widevine plugin for Chromium on Arch Linux. This plugin is necessary to watch streaming media services like Netflix.

The reason I am using Chromium to stream Netflix is a recent upgrade of Google Chrome broke the application and left it unusable. The warning message didn't help at all:

Illegal instruction (core dumped)

Prepare the Environment¶

• Make sure the system is up to date:
  

  sudo pacman -Syu
  

• Install yaourt

• Install a few dependencies:
  

  sudo pacman -S icu libvpx ffmpeg
  

Install Chromium with Widevine¶

• Install Chromium with the Widevine plugin:
  

  yaourt widevine
  

Resources¶

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromium