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    al3xvm
    deepin
    2019-11-01 15:59
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    Current version of VLC is 3.0.8 for now
    You have to install the VLC source code and compiled it. It can be done!


    {Note: If anyone knows better, please improve it!  Thank you}


    1.      Remove the # mark in the 3rd row of /etc/apt/sources.list by:
             sudo deep-editor /etc/apt/sources.list


    2.      sudo apt-get update
             sudo apt-get build-dep vlc
             sudo apt-get install git build-essential pkg-config libtool automake autopoint gettext


    3.      wget http://get.videolan.org/vlc/3.0.8/vlc-3.0.8.tar.xz
             tar xvf vlc-3.0.8.tar.xz
             sudo mv vlc-3.0.8/ /opt/
             cd /opt/vlc-3.0.8
             ./bootstrap
             ./configure
             make
            {vlc is being compiled. It can take up to 15 minutes}


    4.     ./vlc
            {vlc media player is running}
             vlc icon shows up in the panel. Right click the icon and click Dock.
      Done!
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    kuchikuu
    deepin
    2019-11-02 23:37
    #1
    Edited by kuchikuu at 2019-11-2 15:40

    Hello,
    make
    {vlc is being compiled. It can take up to 15 minutes}
    If you have multicore processor, you can utilize more cores (instead of only one by default) by adding an argument -j# where # is the number of your processor's cores.
    To proove it, I've done some testing.
    Using `time` in Linux, I measured the time each `make` took.
    1. make #By default it will use only one core

    3. real        10m4,417s
    4. user        9m34,322s
    5. sys        0m40,682s
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    1. make -j4  #Telling `make` to use 4 cores

    3. real        3m7,209s
    4. user        10m28,695s
    5. sys        0m48,360s
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    1. make -j8  #Allocating more cores doesn't really make a difference

    3. real        3m25,774s
    4. user        11m30,138s
    5. sys        0m57,653s
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    As you can see, it went down from 10 minutes to 3 minutes.

    I also did not use this
    1. sudo apt-get install git build-essential pkg-config libtool automake autopoint gettext
    2. ./bootstrap
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    Perhaps I already installed them before, or perhaps they were not needed(?) but the compilation was successful.
    (PS: I don't know what ./bootstrap does, but whatever it does, was not needed in my case)


    Have a nice day~!
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    play101
    deepin
    2019-11-03 16:18
    #2
    Edited by play101 at 2019-11-3 08:30

    A very good and detailed guide, thanks!
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    granwille
    deepin
    2019-11-15 23:38
    #3
    Hello

    Thank you for this guide, I can confirm VLC is up and running. However, I cannot help but think, if I want to uninstall VLC, how would I do it? And if there were to be a newer version, how would I update it?
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