How To Install VLC Media Player on Debian 9/8

VLC is a powerful media player available for Linux-based systems as well as for windows. It is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most types of multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.

This tutorial helps you to install VLC 3 Media player on Debian 9 Stretch and Debian 8 Jessie.

Step 1 – Prerequsities

You must have root or sudo privileged user access to your Debian Desktop system. Login to your Debian Desktop and upgrade the current packages to latest version.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Step 2 – Install VLC on Debian

The VLC 3 version is available under VLC default unstable repositories. Alos VLC media player can be installed via snap package management tool. Run the following commands to first install snap package management tool on your system. After that, install VLC 3 from snap packages.

sudo apt install snap snapd
sudo snap install vlc

Step 3 – Play VLC

To start VLC player use GUI icon or use the following command to start it and enjoy audio/videos.

vlc

You can find the VLC version in About section under the help menu.

Congratulation’s! you have successfully installed the VLC media player on Ubuntu.

Step 4 – Remove VLC

Simply run the below command to remove VLC from your Debian system installed via the snap.

sudo snap remove vlc