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I would like to install VLC player on Linux Mint in order to watch a movie.

I used to use Fedora, and to install VLC I would use yum -install VLC

What is the equivalent command in Linux Mint?

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  • Thank you mister K. Is there actually somewhere i could read the rules for good posts ?
    – Stef
    Nov 13, 2017 at 5:35

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I would recommend installing VLC Media Player by using official packages from VideoLAN : Downloads by choosing your GNU/Linux distribution.

See the Downloads Section on the Site:

See the Downloads Section on the Site

Either way you can just open Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and write the following commands to install vlc media player.

Step 1 : Add VLC PPA to your System to get latest VLC version

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily

Step 2 : Update Repository

$ sudo apt-get update

Step 3 : Install VLC package

$ sudo apt-get install vlc

If you are using older versions of Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint, you can use above PPA to install/upgrade to latest VLC version.

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  • Ok, thank you so much, here is what actually goes. In order to watch the movie I tried simply sudo apt-get install vlc, before having your answer. My prompt gave this message : VLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.2-0-g6259d80) [09933df8] core interface error: no suitable interface module [098951b0] core libvlc error: interface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed [098951b0] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. [0991bda8] [cli] lua interface: Listening on host "*console". VLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax
    – Stef
    Nov 13, 2017 at 5:37
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    I have the log from the installation, i saved it in a text file. It's Linux Mint >17, 18 i think. The command was actually sudo apt-get install vlc-nox
    – Stef
    Nov 13, 2017 at 5:42

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