How to install VLC media player V 3.0.1 on Fedora-26
To install VLC media player V 3.0.1 on Fedora-26
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player. It’ s useful to play music and videos on the system. It supports several formats such as mpeg, mpeg-2, mpeg-4, wmv, mp3, dvds, vcds, podcasts, ogg/vorbis, mov, divx, quicktime and streaming of multimedia files from various online networks like Youtube and other network sources. It is so simple to install VLC media player V 3.0.1 on Fedora-26 and this tutorial covers the ground on the same process.
Installing VLC
Let' s begin with adding the rpm repo for installing VLC media player.
[root@linuxhelp ~]# dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
Last metadata expiration check: 0:22:40 ago on Thu 26 Apr 2018 05:31:45 AM IST.
rpmfusion-free-release-26.noarch.rpm 13 kB/s | 20 kB 00:01
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Total size: 20 k
Installed size: 8.7 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Installing : rpmfusion-free-release-26-1.noarch 1/1
Verifying : rpmfusion-free-release-26-1.noarch 1/1
Installed:
rpmfusion-free-release.noarch 26-1
Complete!
Then you can install the VLC media player by using the following command.
[root@linuxhelp ~]# dnf install vlc
RPM Fusion for Fedora 26 - Free - Updates 202 kB/s | 493 kB 00:02
RPM Fusion for Fedora 26 - Free 497 kB/s | 519 kB 00:01
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Thu 26 Apr 2018 05:55:13 AM IST.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
vlc x86_64 3.0.1-1.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates 1.9 M
Upgrading:
kf5-akonadi-server x86_64 17.12.3-1.fc26 updates 2.4 M
kf5-akonadi-server-mysql x86_64 17.12.3-1.fc26 updates 11 k
kf5-filesystem x86_64 5.44.0-1.fc26 updates 17 k
kf5-frameworkintegration x86_64 5.44.0-1.fc26 updates 1.6 M
kf5-frameworkintegration-libs x86_64 5.44.0-1.fc26 updates 33 k
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qt5-qtbase.x86_64 5.9.4-4.fc26
qt5-qtbase-common.noarch 5.9.4-4.fc26
qt5-qtbase-gui.x86_64 5.9.4-4.fc26
qt5-qtbase-mysql.x86_64 5.9.4-4.fc26
qt5-qtdeclarative.x86_64 5.9.4-2.fc26
qt5-qtlocation.x86_64 5.9.4-1.fc26
qt5-qtscript.x86_64 5.9.4-1.fc26
qt5-qtsensors.x86_64 5.9.4-1.fc26
qt5-qtsvg.x86_64 5.9.4-1.fc26
qt5-qtwebchannel.x86_64 5.9.4-2.fc26
qt5-qtwebengine.x86_64 5.10.1-4.fc26
qt5-qtwebkit.x86_64 5.212.0-0.20.alpha2.fc26
qt5-qtx11extras.x86_64 5.9.4-1.fc26
qt5-qtxmlpatterns.x86_64 5.9.4-1.fc26
Complete!
After installing you can access the application from the search field.
With this, the method to install VLC media player V 3.0.1 on Fedora-26 comes to an end.