Installing VLC in Ubuntu

The VLC or Video LAN Client program is considered a cross-platform open source media player capable of playing a variety of audio and video files, including mpeg, mpeg-2, mpeg-4, wmv, mp3, dvd, vcd, ogg/vorbis, mov, divx, quicktime, as well as streaming media from online sources such as Youtube and other similar sites. In this tutorial, let's take a look at installing VLC in other Ubuntu-based distributions.

Installing VLC in Ubuntu/Debian

This is a very simple, but extremely popular media player, so ready-made packages are already available in the official repositories. If you need a version from the repositories just run the command:

$ sudo apt install vlc

But Ubuntu repositories contain an old version of the program, if you want to install the current version of the program, you will have to add a developer PPA to the system. To add a PPA, open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T and execute:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily

Then update the package lists from the repositories:

$ sudo apt update

And only now the installation can be performed:

$ sudo apt install vlc

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/master-daily

Now do the same steps. First update, then install VLC in Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install vlc

If you are using older versions of Ubuntu, Debian or Linux Mint, you too can use this PPA to update VLC to the latest version. In case of bugs, particularly with the Qt version update your system to the latest state.

You can also install the latest stable version from the snap package. To do this, execute:

$ sudo snap install vlc

Now installing VLC Ubuntu will not cause you any problems. It is a great player and even more than a player that can replace several different programs.