How to Install VLC Media Player on Ubuntu / Debian Linux

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About VLC

VLC media player is a free, open source multimedia player developed by the non-profit organization VideoLAN. VLC supports almost all known media formats for video and audio, DVD and Video CD. The program offers video streaming from remote computers and servers without loss of quality.

For more details about VLC Media Player, please check its official website.

Ubuntu is a modern GNU / Linux distribution developed by Canonical and the surrounding community. The first version was released on October 20, 2004 and is based on one of the largest Linux distributions - Debian.

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How to install VLC Media player?

Run the below commands to install VLC Media player


# Using APT

sudo apt update

sudo apt install vlc

# Using SNAP

sudo snap install vlc

After starting VLC and agree with the information about Privacy and Network Access Policy you are going to see this screen. From here you can play almost any video file in the world.

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Here is a quick video on how to install VLC Media Player

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