Saturday, October 11, 2008

install latest vlc on ubuntu 8.04

So, you have got ubuntu and you are still playing movies on 0.8.6 something version. No matter how many times you do an "apt-get update", vlc does not upgrade. The way to do this is:

a) sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

b) Add line "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu hardy main" and save the file

c) sudo apt-get update

d) sudo apt-get install vlc

Now when you type in vlc, you will see the latest vlc player popping up...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot! Was trying and trying to get the update.

Anco

Anonymous said...

Great, works a treat! Now running 0.9.8a (with Qt interface!) on Ubuntu 8.04 - just what I wanted. Thanks.