How to install VLC Player on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 Linux

The objective is to install the VLC media player by using both, EPEL and RPM fusion repositories on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 Linux. VLC media player is a portable cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project.

In this tutorial you will learn:

• How to add EPEL repository
• How to enable RPM fusion
• How to install VLC

Software Requirements and Conventions Used

Software Requirements and Linux Command Line Conventions

Category	Requirements, Conventions or Software Version Used
System	CentOS 8 / RHEL 8
Software	N/A
Other	Privileged access to your Linux system as root or via the sudo command.
Conventions	# - requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command $ - requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user

How to install VLC Player messenger on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 Linux step by step instructions

1. First step is to enable EPEL and RPM fusion repository:

   # dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
   # dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-8.noarch.rpm
   

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2. Now, we are ready to install the VLC package simply by using the dnf command:

   # dnf install vlc
   

3. Start VLC media player from your menu or by executing the following command:

   $ vlc