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VLC media player installation on Ubuntu 14.04

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I have searched for many options on the Internet to install VLC media player on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr), but nothing is working for me.

How can I fix this problem?

Errors:

root@hiteshb-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:~# apt-get install vlc

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following extra packages will be installed:

  libavcodec54 libavformat54 libchromaprint0 libmp3lame0 libvlc5 libvlccore7

  vlc-data vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse

Suggested packages:

  libchromaprint-tools python-acoustid videolan-doc

Recommended packages:

  libdvdcss2

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  libavcodec54 libavformat54 libchromaprint0 libmp3lame0 libvlc5 libvlccore7

  vlc vlc-data vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse

0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.



E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

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answered 2 Years ago ardingiba · Accepted Answer

As of 2015-09-23, the latest VLC version for Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) provided by this repository is 2.2.1.

Open a terminal and run (for 14.04):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-*

For other versions, see here.