LXer: Howto install VLC media player 1.0.0 in Ubuntu
 

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Howto install VLC media player 1.0.0 in Ubuntu. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

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As usual its way more complicated than it needs to be. Having a million and one repos for separate apps just makes it more and more complicated, ppa this ppa that etc.

Debian - apt-get install vlc
Installed: 1.0.1-1
Candidate: 1.0.1-1
Version table:
1.0.1-1 0
990 http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages
Wow that was hard.