vlc immediately crashes.
 

Hi,
When I run vlc (a video viewer), I get a crash. If I run it from the command line, I get:
$ vlc --help
VLC media player 3.0.0-git Vetinari (revision 2.2.0-git-8844-g03975b3)
vlc: unknown option or missing mandatory argument `--dbus'
Try `vlc --help' for more information.

I imagine it is some sort of configuration problem. I have deleted "~/.config/vlc" and there is no "~/.vlc". I am running ubuntu 18.04.5.

I'd remove it and re-install.

BTW What's the platform and linux version?

Ah. Fixed this by using the command
$ ldd /usr/bin/vlc
and noting that a local version of libvlc.so.5 was being linked in. I had installed a local version and removed with "make uninstall". Once I deleted this, the error above disappears.