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Ubuntu 9.04 (and Kubuntu) comes with VLC 0.9.9 included in the repositories. However, VLC 1.0.0 was released today and it ships with several new features and many improvements. For readers who don't know what VLC means, it is a powerful, cross-platform and open-source video player, built using Qt 4 toolkit. It supports many video formats and comes with advanced video features and functions. To install the latest release of VLC (currently 1.0.0) in either Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu distributions, just follow the steps below:
Ubuntu 9.04 (and Kubuntu) comes with VLC 0.9.9 included in the repositories. However, VLC 1.0.0 was released today and it ships with several new features and many improvements. For readers who don't know what VLC means, it is a powerful, cross-platform and open-source video player, built using Qt 4 toolkit. It supports many video formats and comes with advanced video features and functions.
To install the latest release of VLC (currently 1.0.0) in either Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu distributions, just follow the steps below:
1. Install the needed dependencies
First, use build-dep to get all the dependencies VLC needs. This will also install compilation tools, including the build-essential meta package:
sudo apt-get build-dep vlc
You will need your user password. Notice that on a fresh system this will install a lot of development packages. After the installation is completed proceed to the next step.
Notice: If the buil-dep command fails with a message which goes like E: Build-dependencies for vlc could not be satisfied. then try to install all the packages manually. The following are two separate commands:
2. Download the source tarball
Get the source code from the official website (direct link), then make sure the currently working directory is the one where you saved it and uncompress it:
tar -xjf vlc-1.0.0.tar.bz2
3. Compile and install VLC
To compile and install, just issue the usual commands inside the vlc-1.0.0 directory:
./configure
make
sudo make install
Finally, don't forget to run sudo ldconfig with your user password.
You can choose an alternate location for the installation, so you can install as normal user. E.g.:
./configure --prefix=/home/user/usr/
make
make install
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