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How to install VLC Media Player in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Here's is a guide to install VLC using motumedia ppa.

To install VLC, you will need to install the medibuntu-keyring, w32codecs and libdvdcss2.
For that open a terminal and type the following.
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 2EBC26B60C5A2783 
$ sudo apt-get update 
$ sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install w32codecs
$ sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

Now add the motumedia GPG key.
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys  C5D7718106438B87

Now add this line to your repository.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/motumedia/ppa/ubuntu lucid main
Go to System->Administration->Software Sources and select the Third-Party Software tab then click the Add button and add the line there.

Now install VLC and its moxilla-plugin
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc
$ sudo atp-get upgrade

Comments

Anonymous said…
hi, thanks for the post but when i execute
sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
i get the message E: Couldn't find package medibuntu-keyring

Thanks
Erik said…
Try:

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

It should work then.
Anonymous said…
Hi, just finished following install had same problem as above person. Then followed the other solution and this is what I get ""WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
medibuntu-keyring
Authentication warning overridden.
Err http://packages.medibuntu.org/ lucid/free medibuntu-keyring 2008.04.20
404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/m/medibuntu-keyring/medibuntu-keyring_2008.04.20_all.deb 404 Not Found
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?"" Any help, thanks :)

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