How to Install VLC Media Player on CentOS 8 Linux
September 15, 2020
This post will show you how to install VLC Media Player on your CentOS 8 Linux. How do I install the latest VLC Player version through command line on the latest CentOS 8 operating system? This guide will show step by step instruction to install VLC Media Player in CentOS 8 Linux.
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What is VLC Media Player?
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs and various streaming protocols. It supports most of the common video formats, so it is very popular in the Linux world.
VLC Media Player is also available for Desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as: Window phone, Android, IOS and Tizen.
Before launch VLC Player, you need to make sure that a graphical environment is installed on your CentOS 8 system, so that you can be able to use VLC media player.
Install VLC Media Player on CentOS 8
To install VLC Media Player on your CentOS 8 Linux system, and just do the following steps:
Step1: install EPEL Repository
Since VLC packages are available in the RPM Fusion repository. And the RPM Fusion repository depends on the EPEL repository. To install EPEL repository, just do the following steps:
$ dnf install epel-release -y
Once epel package is installed, it will create epel repository files under /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.
[root@mydevops ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo [epel] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch #baseurl=https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/$releasever/Everything/$basearch metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-$releasever&arch=$basearch&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8 [epel-debuginfo] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Debug #baseurl=https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8 gpgcheck=1 [epel-source] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Source #baseurl=https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/$releasever/Everything/SRPMS metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8 gpgcheck=1 [root@mydevops ~]#
Step2: install RPM Fusion Repository
You need to install RPM Fusion repository package on your CentOS 8 Linux for installing VLC media player, type:
$ dnf -y install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-8.noarch.rpm
Outputs:
root@mydevops ~]# dnf -y install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-8.noarch.rpm Last metadata expiration check: 1:23:35 ago on Sun 13 Sep 2020 07:02:03 AM EDT. rpmfusion-free-release-8.noarch.rpm 8.1 kB/s | 11 kB 00:01 Dependencies resolved. Install 1 Package Total size: 11 k Installed size: 3.7 k Downloading Packages: Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : /1 Installing : rpmfusion-free-release-8-0.1.noarch 1/1 Verifying : rpmfusion-free-release-8-0.1.noarch 1/1 Installed products updated. Installed: rpmfusion-free-release-8-0.1.noarch Complete!
Once it is installed successfully. One RPM Fusion repo file should be created under the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.
You can verify all repo list by run the below command:
$ dnf repolist
Outputs:
[root@mydevops ~]# dnf repolist repo id repo name AppStream CentOS-8 - AppStream BaseOS CentOS-8 - Base epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 epel-modular Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 extras CentOS-8 - Extras google-chrome google-chrome-x86_64 rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for EL 8 - Free – Updates
From the above outputs, you can see that rpmfusion-free-updates repo has been enabled.
Step3: install VLC Media Player on CentOS 8
Now you can install VLC Media player package using dnf command on your CentOS 8 Linux system, type the following command:
$ sudo dnf install vlc
Outputs:
[root@mydevops ~]# dnf install vlc RPM Fusion for EL 8 - Free - Updates 135 kB/s | 262 kB 00:01 Dependencies resolved. ================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================= Package Architecture Version Repository Size ================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================= Installing: vlc x86_64 1:3.0.11.1-3.el8 rpmfusion-free-updates 1.5 M Installing dependencies: aalib-libs x86_64 1.4.0-0.37.rc5.el8 epel 72 k Total download size: 47 M Installed size: 176 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages:
Once VLC is installed successfully on your system, and you can use the following rpm command with -q option to verify it.
$ rpm -q vlc
Step4: launch the VLC Media Player on CentOS 8
You can now launch the VLC player either from the command line interface by running the following vlc command or by clicking on Applications menu, then click on “Sound & video” menu, click on “VLC media player” icon to start VLC.
$ vlc
Set VLC Media Player as the Default Media Player
If you want to set VLC Media Player as the default media player on your current CentOS 8 system, and just do the following steps:
Step1: click Activities menu to open “Activities” window.
Step2: type “default applications” keyword in searching box and then click on it. The “Default Applications” window will appear.
Step3: select “VLC Media Player” option from drop down menu list of both Music and Video.
Conclusion
You should know that how to install VLC Media Player on CentOS 8 Linux system. and if you want to get more details about VLC, and you can visit its official page. https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Documentation
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