Installing VLC on fedora 21

Before performing following steps make sure that you not logged in as a root user. VLC does not work fine with root user.

1. You need to setup a repository

There is rpm-fusion repository which available in free and non-free

a. Go to Terminal :

For rpm-fusion-free repo execute:

$sudo dnf install http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

For rpm-fusion-nonfree repo execute:

$sudo dnf install http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

2. Download required package before installing VLC

Following are required packages for GNOME desktop user

$sudo dnf install gstreamer1-libav gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-ugly gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-free gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree

3. Install VLC

$sudo dnf install vlc

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