How To Install vlc on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlc on Ubuntu.
What is vlc
vlc is:
VLC is the VideoLAN project’s media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.
VLC can also be used as a streaming server that duplicates the stream it reads and multicasts them through the network to other clients, or serves them through HTTP.
VLC has support for on-the-fly transcoding of audio and video formats, either for broadcasting purposes or for movie format transformations. Support for most output methods is provided by this package, but features can be added by installing additional plugins:
- vlc-plugin-access-extra
- vlc-plugin-fluidsynth
- vlc-plugin-jack
- vlc-plugin-notify
- vlc-plugin-samba
- vlc-plugin-skins2
- vlc-plugin-svg
- vlc-plugin-video-splitter
- vlc-plugin-visualization
There are three methods to install vlc on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vlc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vlc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vlc
Install vlc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vlc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vlc
Install vlc Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install vlc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vlc
How To Uninstall vlc on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the vlc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vlc
Uninstall vlc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vlc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vlc
Remove vlc Configurations and Data
To remove vlc configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vlc
Remove vlc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vlc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vlc
Dependencies
vlc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlc package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.