Published February 13, 2018 by

Install Latest VLC Media Player in Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS)

VLC media player (VLC) is a free and open-source, portable and cross-platform media player and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS, Tizen, Windows 10 Mobile and Windows Phone. VLC is also available on digital distribution platforms such as Apple's App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Store.

VLC supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-Video, video CD, and streaming protocols. It is able to stream media over computer networks and to transcode multimedia files.


In this tutorial, we are installed VLC on all Linux platform.

Install VLC in Debian/Ubuntu/LinuxMint

# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install vlc

Update VLC

# sudo apt-get update

Install VLC in CentOS/RedHat

# rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm
# sudo yum install vlc
# vlc

Update VLC

# sudo yum update vlc