How to install VLC in manjaro
VLC is the VideoLAN project’s media player.
which is completely an open-source and privacy-friendly, it plays every multimedia file and streams.
It plays MKV, MP4, MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, BluRays, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams. It supports subtitles, closed captions and is translated in numerous languages.
Details for VLC
License GPL-2.0+
Last updated 5 June 2020
INSTALLATION STEPS IN MANJARO
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Enable snapd
Snapd can be installed from Manjaro’s Add/Remove Software application (Pamac), found in the launch menu.
From the application, search for snapd, select the result, and click Apply.
Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line by, copy this code and paste in terminal
sudo pacman -S snapd
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled,
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap
and /snap,
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Installing VLC
To install VLC, simply use the following command,
sudo snap install vlc
😃happy hacking❤