VLC media player 0.8.6f release for Ubuntu Linux

We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6f.

This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak codec.

This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored.

We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
More information can be found in our Security Advisory and in the Release Notes.

Download Now for Ubuntu Linux

Open Synaptic (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager). In Settings -> Repositories, make sure you have a "universe" repository activated.

Search for vlc and install it. You should also install vlc-plugin-esd, mozilla-plugin-vlc (and libdvdcss2).

Command line way

You need to check that you have a "universe" mirror in your /etc/apt/sources.list

% sudo apt-get update % sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd mozilla-plugin-vlc

Ubuntu Dapper Drake LTS 6.06

Dapper will be supported until June 2009 by Canonical. But VLC version is very old in Dapper, so use our packages to get the latest VLC version.

Add our repository that way:

• Be sure to have universe repository enabled. And type these commands in a terminal

echo "deb ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/ubuntu dapper universe" >
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/vlc.list

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd mozilla-plugin-vlc libdvdcss2

Ubuntu Breezy Badger 5.10

You really should upgrade ! We don't provide up-to-date binaries for this release.

Moreover, you should not that this version is subject to several unpatched vulnerabilities !

If you're really desperate, you can find a not so old version for Breezy

on nightlies.videolan.org.

Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog 5.04

You really should upgrade ! We don't provide up-to-date binaries for this release.

Moreover, you should not that this version is subject to several unpatched vulnerabilities !

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