How to install VLC in openSUSE

Written by Administrator on Monday April 13, 2020

VLC player is not part of standard openSUSE repositories, so we have to add additional repository for VLC and its tools:

Adding VLC repository

For openSUSE Leap 15.0:

$ sudo zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/Leap_15.0/ VLC

For openSUSE Leap 15.1:

$ sudo zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/Leap_15.1/ VLC

For openSUSE Leap 15.2:

$ sudo zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/Leap_15.2/ VLC

For openSUSE SLE11:

$ sudo zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/SLE11/ VLC

For openSUSE SLE12

$ sudo zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/SLE12/ VLC

For openSUSE SLE15:

$ sudo zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/SLE15/ VLC

For openSUSE Tumbleweed:

$ sudo zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/Tumbleweed/ VLC

For openSUSE Leap 15.1 output of command for adding repo was following:

Adding repository 'VLC' .......................................[done]
Repository 'VLC' successfully added

URI         : http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/Leap_15.1/
Enabled     : Yes                                                 
GPG Check   : Yes                                                 
Autorefresh : No                                                  
Priority    : 99 (default priority)                               

Repository priorities in effect:  (See 'zypper lr -P' for details)
      90 (raised priority)  :  2 repositories
      99 (default priority) : 11 repositories

Installing VLC

When new repository was added, we can simply install VLC running two commands:

$ sudo zypper mr -r VLC
$ sudo zypper in vlc

In case you're missing some libraries or packages, system will ask to you install them.

Category: linux Tags: install opensuse VLC