How to install VLC media player V 3.0.1 on Fedora-26

To install VLC media player V 3.0.1 on Fedora-26

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player. It’ s useful to play music and videos on the system. It supports several formats such as mpeg, mpeg-2, mpeg-4, wmv, mp3, dvds, vcds, podcasts, ogg/vorbis, mov, divx, quicktime and streaming of multimedia files from various online networks like Youtube and other network sources. It is so simple to install VLC media player V 3.0.1 on Fedora-26 and this tutorial covers the ground on the same process.

Installing VLC

Let' s begin with adding the rpm repo for installing VLC media player.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# dnf  install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
Last metadata expiration check: 0:22:40 ago on Thu 26 Apr 2018 05:31:45 AM IST.
rpmfusion-free-release-26.noarch.rpm                          13 kB/s |  20 kB     00:01    
Dependencies resolved.
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Total size: 20 k
Installed size: 8.7 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Running transaction check                                                                   
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Running transaction test                                                                  
Transaction test succeeded.                                                              
Running transaction                                                                      
  Preparing        :                                                                     1/1 
  Installing       : rpmfusion-free-release-26-1.noarch                                  1/1 
  Verifying        : rpmfusion-free-release-26-1.noarch                                  1/1 

Installed:
  rpmfusion-free-release.noarch 26-1                                                         

Complete!

Then you can install the VLC media player by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# dnf install vlc
RPM Fusion for Fedora 26 - Free - Updates                    202 kB/s | 493 kB     00:02    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 26 - Free                              497 kB/s | 519 kB     00:01    
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Thu 26 Apr 2018 05:55:13 AM IST.
Dependencies resolved.
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 Package                       Arch   Version                   Repository              Size
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Installing:
 vlc                           x86_64 3.0.1-1.fc26              rpmfusion-free-updates 1.9 M
Upgrading:
 kf5-akonadi-server            x86_64 17.12.3-1.fc26            updates                2.4 M
 kf5-akonadi-server-mysql      x86_64 17.12.3-1.fc26            updates                 11 k
 kf5-filesystem                x86_64 5.44.0-1.fc26             updates                 17 k
 kf5-frameworkintegration      x86_64 5.44.0-1.fc26             updates                1.6 M
 kf5-frameworkintegration-libs x86_64 5.44.0-1.fc26             updates                 33 k
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  qt5-qtbase.x86_64 5.9.4-4.fc26                                                             
  qt5-qtbase-common.noarch 5.9.4-4.fc26                                                      
  qt5-qtbase-gui.x86_64 5.9.4-4.fc26                                                         
  qt5-qtbase-mysql.x86_64 5.9.4-4.fc26                                                       
  qt5-qtdeclarative.x86_64 5.9.4-2.fc26                                                      
  qt5-qtlocation.x86_64 5.9.4-1.fc26                                                         
  qt5-qtscript.x86_64 5.9.4-1.fc26                                                           
  qt5-qtsensors.x86_64 5.9.4-1.fc26                                                          
  qt5-qtsvg.x86_64 5.9.4-1.fc26                                                              
  qt5-qtwebchannel.x86_64 5.9.4-2.fc26                                                       
  qt5-qtwebengine.x86_64 5.10.1-4.fc26                                                       
  qt5-qtwebkit.x86_64 5.212.0-0.20.alpha2.fc26                                               
  qt5-qtx11extras.x86_64 5.9.4-1.fc26                                                        
  qt5-qtxmlpatterns.x86_64 5.9.4-1.fc26                                                      

Complete!

After installing you can access the application from the search field.