How to Correctly Install VLC Media Player on Linux Ubuntu | Step-by-Step Guide

In this tutorial, we explain how to install one of the most popular audio and video players for Linux Ubuntu. The name of this player is VLC Media Player. VLC Media Player is a free and open source cross-platform media player capable of playing most media files as well as DVDs, CDs, etc.

The YouTube tutorial is given below.

Installation Instructions

First, we need to update and upgrade all the packages

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

To install VLC, we need to type this

sudo apt install vlc

Once VLC is installed, to verify the installation, type this

vlc --version

Now, you can open VLC either from the Linux Ubuntu Desktop or from the command line. In the command line, you need to type this

vlc

We can also open a media file from a command line. To do that, type

vlc <file_name>

For example, to open the file media1.mp3, you need to type the following

vlc media1.mp3