Open the terminal and enter(also enter password,if prompted) the command(s) given below – sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-vlc >Then click on Apply button and wait for the installation to complete. >Search for ‘vlc’ and select the package for installation(using check box) You can install either from the package manager or from the command line. The source code of the vlc player is available freely under GNU GPL license, so it means that you can’t only play the media files but also with the vlc itself. So vlc player is a ‘must have Apps’ for all computer users – beginners as well as advanced.

VLC player is known as ‘All in One’ media player, because it can play all the common media file – audio as well as video. it is free,open source and cross-platform(Available for all the common operating system). VLC Media Player has been developed/maintained under Video LAN Project. That’s why this post will explain(specially written for beginner users, probably who have just migrated from windows based operating system to Linux based distribution or Linux Mint) about how to install vlc media player(which is the most popular media player) on Linux Mint 10/9. Linux Mint has a media player installed by default but it’s not sufficient for playing all formats. The following is the screenshot of VLC media player.Linux Mint 10(code named as Julia) has just launched(a week ago). $ sudo zypper ar $(lsb_release -release | cut -f2) VLC On OpenSUSE, you can install VLC with zypper after enabling VLC repository as follows. After that, simply use yum command to install VLC.

To install VLC on CentOS, you need to set up Repoforge, EPEL and RPM Fusion repositories first. To install VLC on Fedora, first enable RPM Fusion repository, and then run: $ sudo yum install vlc VLC is included in the base repositories of Debian-based system, so installing VLC is straightforward with apt-get. Install VLC on Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint VLC can play audio and video files of many different codec and container formats, as well as stream over the network via HTTP, RTP, RTSP, MMS streaming protocols. VLC is by far the most popular and reliable open-source media player available on Linux. Question: I would like to use VLC media player on my Linux system.

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