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Quick installation of vlc:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: vlc
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install vlc
Package Details | |
| Package: | vlc |
| Version: | 2.0.8-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ |
| Description: | multimedia player and streamer 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 audio plugins (vlc-plugin-pulse, vlc-plugin-sdl) or video plugins (vlc-plugin-sdl). Homepage: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/graphics |
How to install vlc on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If vlc is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L vlc' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L vlc Package `vlc' is not installed. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing vlc:
After system update use the following command to install vlc:
sudo apt-get install vlc
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove vlc from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the vlc from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the vlc following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove vlc
Following command is used to remove the vlc package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove vlc
This will remove vlc and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing vlc with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge vlc
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove vlc
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with vlc package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
