Installing VLC player on Fedora 18 / 19 / 20

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Here’s a simple three step guide to installing VLC media player on Fedora 19 [Schrodinger’s Cat]:-

  1. Login as Super User:
    • $su
  2. Setup rpmfusion:
    • #rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
  3. Install vlc using the default yum package manager:
    • #yum install vlc mozilla-vlc

Voila! You now have VLC media player installed on you computer! 🙂

58 thoughts on “Installing VLC player on Fedora 18 / 19 / 20”

  9. Florian Breier

    Hello Mr. Sarkar,
    I`ve got an eror message.
    Error: Package: minizip-1.2.7-10.fc19.i686 (fedora)
    Requires: zlib = 1.2.7-10.fc19
    Installed: zlib-1.2.8-3.fc20.i686 (installed)
    zlib = 1.2.8-3.fc20
    Available: zlib-1.2.7-10.fc19.i686 (fedora)
    zlib = 1.2.7-10.fc19
    You can try using –skip-broken to work around the problem.
    You could try: rpm-Va – nofiles – nodigest

    Can you help me to resolve the problem?

    Thanks in advance!

    Reply
    1. Sayak Sarkar

      It looks like you are using a more recent version of the required dependencies. Ideally it shouldn’t be much of a problem if you skip the dependencies. You may try doing yum install vlc mozilla-vlc -skip broken to see if that solves the issue.

      Reply
  17. Vicky

    “system-release >= 19 is needed by rpmfusion-free-release-19-1.noarch” Message displayed when I tried to install VLC Player in Fedora 20.

    Reply
    1. Sayak Sarkar

      Hey Prasad,

      Once you install vlc, it’s quite usable offline. However, you do need an internet connection to download the requisite packages during the installation.

      Reply
  21. J Kleber

    Man, got the following error message. And then…?
    –> Finished Dependency Resolution
    Error: Package: vlc-core-2.1.4-4.fc21.i686 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
    Requires: libass.so.5
    Error: Package: vlc-core-2.1.4-4.fc21.i686 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
    Requires: libgcrypt.so.20(GCRYPT_1.6)
    Error: Package: vlc-core-2.1.4-4.fc21.i686 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
    Requires: libgcrypt.so.20
    Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-2.2-1.fc21.i686 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
    Requires: libass.so.5
    You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
    You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest

    Reply
  23. Abhilash

    Hi, I installed VLC player for my fedora 20 but the problem is that i can’t see my video but the audio is working properly and i had the same case with default video player also

    Reply
    1. Sayak Sarkar

      Not quite sure why this is happening. Might be a system issue. Try going through the system logs, that should tell you if there is any background conflict happening in the system.

      Reply
      1. Abhilash

        How could i find system logs.. When i tried via real time application it says that ” A problem with GNOME-system log has been detected. When tried via “ls /var/log” permission denied even though i was the root user. Can you suggest any ways ..

        Reply
  24. J Kleber

    Hi dude,
    I’ve got an error message after performing the three steps described above as follows:
    –> Finished Dependency Resolution
    Error: Package: vlc-core-2.1.4-4.fc21.i686 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
    Requires: libass.so.5
    Error: Package: vlc-core-2.1.4-4.fc21.i686 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
    Requires: libgcrypt.so.20(GCRYPT_1.6)
    Error: Package: vlc-core-2.1.4-4.fc21.i686 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
    Requires: libgcrypt.so.20
    Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-2.2.1-1.fc21.i686 (rpmfusion-free-rawhide)
    Requires: libass.so.5
    You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
    You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest

    and now, what 2 do?

    Reply
      1. J Kleber

        Thanx Sayak for your prompt reply.
        I’ve done as you told me. That’s the answer I’ve got:

        No package libass.so.5 available.
        No package libcrypt.so.20 available.
        Error: Nothing to do
        [root@localhost jek]#

        Reply
        1. Sayak Sarkar

          Have you tried doing:-

          #yum install vlc mozilla-vlc –skip-broken

          OR if that didn’t work doing:-

          #rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest

          and then retrying the installation?

          Reply
          1. J Kleber

            Thanks once again!
            Don’t get bored about my questions, please.
            I’ve typed the two commands above and that’s the reply:

            Command line error: no such option: -s
            [root@localhost jek]# rpm -Va -nofiles -nodigest
            rpm: -nofiles: unknown option

            Is there still anything to be done?

  26. J Kleber

    I also tried: and that’s what I’ve got:

    [root@localhost jek]# rpm -Va -nodigest
    rpm: -nodigest: unknown option
    [root@localhost jek]# rpm -Va
    S.5….T. c /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
    .M……. /
    .M……. /sys
    missing /var/run/wpa_supplicant
    .M….G.. /var/log/journal
    S.5….T. /var/lib/lpf/packages/flash-plugin/state
    ….L…. c /etc/pam.d/fingerprint-auth
    ….L…. c /etc/pam.d/password-auth
    ….L…. c /etc/pam.d/postlogin
    ….L…. c /etc/pam.d/smartcard-auth
    ….L…. c /etc/pam.d/system-auth
    S.5….T. c /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf
    missing /var/run/pluto
    prelink: /usr/lib/libunwind-coredump.so.0.0.0: at least one of file’s dependencies has changed since prelinking
    S.?…… /usr/lib/libunwind-coredump.so.0.0.0
    prelink: /usr/lib/libunwind-x86.so.8.0.1: at least one of file’s dependencies has changed since prelinking
    S.?…… /usr/lib/libunwind-x86.so.8.0.1
    .M……. /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
    S.5….T. c /var/lib/unbound/root.key
    S.5….T. c /etc/printcap
    S.5….T. c /etc/mailcap
    S.5….T. c /etc/mime.types
    S.5….T. /usr/share/icons/Crux/icon-theme.cache
    S.5….T. /usr/share/icons/Mist/icon-theme.cache
    S.5….T. c /etc/hba.conf
    S.5….T. c /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
    .M……. c /etc/cups/subscriptions.conf
    [root@localhost jek]#

    What’s next?

    Reply
  27. Stonker

    How do you run vlc when it is installed? Thanks.
    It used to run on Fedora 20, when you clicked the icon, Even if you click the option ‘new window’ – still nothing.
    Cannot run sudo vlc either
    Alt+F2 vlc not working either
    I find the same problem with half my applications now…. Rhythmbox, even Mozila, after the pc is locked, I cannot access pages that were opened….
    Do I have to really go back to windows?
    Many thanks, if anyone can shed light on these issues.
    Stonker

    Reply
  28. shareef

    hi Sarkar , i installed VLC in ma Fedora 20 , but it is not support all video format.
    i tried to install plugins but it not possible for me…
    pls give me a solution …. thankz

    Reply
  29. pravin jagtap

    [pravin@localhost ~]$ su
    Password:
    [root@localhost pravin]# #rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
    [root@localhost pravin]# yum install vlc mozilla-vlc
    Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
    Server: Red Hat Linux 19 – x86_64 – Base
    retrygrab() failed for:
    http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/19/x86_64/headers/header.info
    Executing failover method
    failover: out of servers to try
    Error getting file http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/19/x86_64/headers/header.info
    [Errno 4] IOError:
    [root@localhost pravin]#

    i have face the error what to do pls step by step

    Reply
  31. Kalpesh Mestri

    I am using fedora 20 and was trying to install vlc media player, but when I tried to run media file I found this error VLC does not support the audio or video format “h264”. Unfortunately there is no way for you tofix this. Please help me with this.

    Reply
  32. death

    it shows
    GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 14] curl#37 – “Couldn’t open file /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-19”
    plz help

    Reply

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