Easy steps to download VLC player in Redhat Linux


Are you searching for simple tutorial to install VLC player in Redhat Enterprise Linux? In this article I have given steps to install VLC player in Redhat easily. Follow the below steps to install VLC player in Redhat.

VLC player for Redhat - By default Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 has Movie Player or Totem. You find them uneasy to use. Subtitle won't load in this player at an instance like VLC. There are several such drawbacks which make you think to choose VLC over Totem. You can't install VLC in Redhat OS quicker like Windows. It took more than 6 months for me to install VLC in my Redhat OS. But don't worry by following the below steps you can install VLC player in your PC quickly.

VLC installation steps


1. Installing repository - To install VLC player you need to add two repositories. Repositories are similar to Google Play, in Redhat you are just going to install an application and it gives you access to all the package in that repository. Now install ATrpms and RPMforge repository. You can download it from below link.

ATrpms - http://atprms.net/
RPMforge - http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge

Download the RPM file as per your architecture. Architecture means your system configuration (i.e) 32 bit or 64 bit. To find this, right-click on the desktop and open terminal and append the following command without '#'.

#uname -r

You can notice i686 or X64. Download the repository RPM file depending on your architecture. Install both RPM file to add this repository in your system. Just refer the below image for installation.
Installation window Redhat
2. Configuring repository - In this step, you are going to update the repository in your system. Without updating your system won't connect to the repository. For this task, you need to open the terminal and enter the following command.

#yum clean all
#yum list all

Now your system is updated with two new repositories.

3. Installing library files - Library files are important to support a package. Installing the library files needed for VLC alone take a long time. So just install all the library file available in ATrpms repository. Library files won't occupy much space in your HDD. I already mentioned that we are going to install library files from ATrpms repository alone, so we need to disable RPMforge repository in order to avoid a clash. Now open the terminal and enter the following command without '#'.

#yum-config-manager --disable rpmforge
#yum repolist all

The command "yum repolist all" will display all the repository with enable/disable details. So disable all repository except "ATrpms". You can disable any repository by "yum-config-manager --disable ". In place of repo ID enter the respective ID, I have demonstrated in below image.
Repolist in Redhat
It's the right time to install library files. Enter the below command in your terminal.

#yum install lib* -y --skip-broken

The above command installs all the library file in ATrpms repository and skips the broken libraries.

4. Installing VLC - VLC packages will be fully available in RPMforge. So now enable RPMforge repository and disable ATrpms repository. This can be done by following commands.

#yum-config-manager --enable rpmforge
#yum-config-manager --disable atrpms
#yum install vlc

Now VLC will be installed in your Redhat and you can start using it. You can launch VLC from Application -> Sound & Video -> VLC


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Comments

Guest Author: amit sharma05 Jun 2015

I cannot install VLC - same problem:

Error: Package: vlc-core-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libgme.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: vlc-core-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libva-x11.so.1()(64bit)
Error: Package: vlc-core-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libmatroska.so.4()(64bit)
Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-0.10.4-2.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libgnutls.so.26(GNUTLS_1_4)(64bit)
Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-0.10.4-2.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libschroedinger-1.0.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: vlc-core-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libgnutls.so.26()(64bit)
Error: Package: vlc-core-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libproxy.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-0.10.4-2.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libcdio_paranoia.so.0()(64bit)
Available: libcdio-0.77-1.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
libcdio_paranoia.so.0()(64bit)
Installed: libcdio-0.92-1.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda/7.0)
Not found
Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-0.10.4-2.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libcdio_cdda.so.0()(64bit)
Available: libcdio-0.77-1.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
libcdio_cdda.so.0()(64bit)
Installed: libcdio-0.92-1.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda/7.0)
Not found
Error: Package: vlc-core-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libmtp.so.8()(64bit)
Available: libmtp-0.3.7-1.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
libmtp.so.8()(64bit)
Installed: libmtp-1.1.6-3.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda/7.0)
~libmtp.so.9()(64bit)
Error: Package: vlc-core-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libdvbpsi.so.6()(64bit)
Available: libdvbpsi-0.1.7-1.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
libdvbpsi.so.6()(64bit)
Available: libdvbpsi-0.1.7-1.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
libdvbpsi.so.6()(64bit)
Installed: libdvbpsi-0.2.2-3.el7.nux.x86_64 (@nux-dextop)
~libdvbpsi.so.7()(64bit)
Available: libdvbpsi-0.1.2-0.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
~libdvbpsi.so.1()(64bit)
Available: libdvbpsi-0.1.5-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
~libdvbpsi.so.4()(64bit)
Error: Package: vlc-core-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libtiger.so.5()(64bit)
Error: Package: librtmp-2.4-0.3.20110811gitc58cfb3e.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libgnutls.so.26(GNUTLS_1_4)(64bit)
Error: Package: vlc-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libminizip.so.1()(64bit)
Error: Package: vlc-core-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libminizip.so.1()(64bit)
Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-0.10.4-2.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libcdio_paranoia.so.0(CDIO_PARANOIA_0)(64bit)
Available: libcdio-0.77-1.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
libcdio_paranoia.so.0(CDIO_PARANOIA_0)(64bit)
Installed: libcdio-0.92-1.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda/7.0)
Not found
Error: Package: vlc-core-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libudev.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: vlc-core-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libva.so.1()(64bit)
Error: Package: vlc-core-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libgnutls.so.26(GNUTLS_1_4)(64bit)
Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-0.10.4-2.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libopenal.so.1()(64bit)
Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-0.10.4-2.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libva.so.1()(64bit)
Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-0.10.4-2.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libgnutls.so.26()(64bit)
Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-0.10.4-2.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libcdio_cdda.so.0(CDIO_CDDA_0)(64bit)
Available: libcdio-0.77-1.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
libcdio_cdda.so.0(CDIO_CDDA_0)(64bit)
Installed: libcdio-0.92-1.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda/7.0)
Not found
Error: Package: librtmp-2.4-0.3.20110811gitc58cfb3e.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libgnutls.so.26()(64bit)
Error: Package: vlc-core-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libebml.so.3()(64bit)
Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-0.10.4-2.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libopenjpeg.so.2()(64bit)
Error: Package: vlc-2.0.8-3.el6.nux.x86_64 (nux-dextop)
Requires: libxcb-keysyms.so.1()(64bit)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Guest Author: saran16 Aug 2015

I wasted a lot of time trying to do as per the information given, as it is still not working.



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