{"id":2977,"date":"2014-02-08T05:37:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T05:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2015-07-28T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T16:30:10","slug":"install-vlc-2-1-2-ubuntu-12-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/install-vlc-2-1-2-ubuntu-12-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install VLC 2.1.2 in Ubuntu 12.04\/12.10\/13.04\/13.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC-LOGO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC-LOGO.jpg\" alt=\"VLC 2.1.2 Ubuntu 12.04\" width=\"204\" height=\"204\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC-LOGO.jpg 204w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC-LOGO-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe popular VLC media player has reached version 2.1.x with some fantastic new features, bug fixes and performance improvements. However, the official PPA for Ubuntu 13.10 and earlier is stuck at version 2.0.8.<\/p>\n<p><b>There&#8217;s now a third-party PPA that provides the most recent build of VLC (it&#8217;s 2.1.2 so far) to Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04, and Ubuntu 13.10 users.<\/b> The PPA is maintained by <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~djcj\" title=\"third-party vlc ppa\" target=\"_blank\"><i>djcj<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/vlc-212-ubuntu1310.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/vlc-212-ubuntu1310.jpg\" alt=\"install vlc 2.1.2 ubuntu 13.10\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/vlc-212-ubuntu1310.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/vlc-212-ubuntu1310-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The PPA is not officially endorsed, supported or otherwise backed by the Videolan team. Use it at your own risk!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below to add the PPA and install VLC.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:djcj\/vlc-stable\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install vlc<\/pre>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t like the PPAs, directly download &#038; install the DEBs from the launchpad page.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The popular VLC media player has reached version 2.1.x with some fantastic new features, bug fixes and performance improvements. However, the official PPA for Ubuntu 13.10 and earlier is stuck at version 2.0.8. There&#8217;s now a third-party PPA that provides the most recent build of VLC (it&#8217;s 2.1.2 so far) to Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1020,17,15,37,639],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-install-latest-vlc-ubuntu","tag-ubuntu-12-04","tag-ubuntu-13-04","tag-ubuntu-13-10","tag-vlc-media-player"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}