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aruggirello on May 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn...

I don't seem to find a way to update VLC to 2.2.5 on Ubuntu (or Debian, or Mint for the matter). I understand Canonical does not provide updates in the repos - but the VideoLAN website's download URL for Ubuntu is just "apt://vlc" - it would be nice to be able to download one or more .deb's too.

Do we have to build it from source?

agnivade on May 26, 2017 | [–]

Damn, building from source is nigh impossible. Given the sheer amount of plugin libraries that need to be installed. - https://wiki.videolan.org/Contrib_Status/

thresh on May 24, 2017 | [–]

You can use snaps, but they are currently broken due to build issues.

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