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Kushal
Asked: 2011-07-14 05:11:04 +0800 CST

VLC media player stable PPA for 10.10?

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After using both Ubuntu 11.04 (for Unity) and Fedora 15 (for GNOME 3), I've reverted back to Ubuntu 10.10 for its better classic gnome experience, and have no plans to upgrade until Oneiric releases (for its Unity and GNOME 3 compatibility altogether), and since 10.10 is older now, the VLC media player in its official repository is way to old, and I'm looking for PPA that provides latest stable VLC in Maverick.

So far, I've tried ppa:ferramroberto/vlc and ppa:n-muench/vlc PPAs, and both say that they have VLC 1.1.10 in the repositories, but after adding the PPA and updating the package information, I do not see updated version of VLC in synaptic, also, running sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc shows dependency issues and prevents installing anything. So, what's going wrong? other working PPA suggestions are welcome. Compiling the latest version of VLC manually, or using Lucid-Bleed PPA (which is available for 10.04 only but is known to work in 10.10 as well) would be my last option.

Thanks.

10.10

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    There is an extensive PPA here - which is very similar to the lucid bleeding edge ppa (and with the same author) - will uplift maverick to the latest versions of various applications including v1.1.10 of VLC.

    However, I would use this PPA with care since it will uplift approx. 69 packages.

    I would add the PPA, followed by

    sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vlc

    This should upgrade vlc to the latest version.

    Then I would untick the PPA from software sources and re-run

    sudo apt-get update

    This will stop any further packages from the PPA being installed.

    Note - I cannot vouch for the stability/safety or otherwise of any packages from this PPA. As for the majority of PPA's - use at your own risk.

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