How to install VLC1.1.11 – Linux

VLC 1.1.11 has been released, this is a security release with some other improvements. according to vlc team, this release was necessary due to two securityissues in the real and avi demuxers. It also contains improvements in the fullscreen mode of the Win32 mozilla plugin, the MacOSX Media Key handling and Auhal audio output as well as bug fixes in GUI, decoders and demuxers.

The new release is available in GetDeb repositories, for ubuntu and linuxmint users with getdeb installed in their system, simply update your system to have the latest release of vlc.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-vlc

- For Fedora:

Use RPM Fusion for F13, F14 and F15
Install rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm for F13, F14 and F15.

$> su -
 #> rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
 #> yum install vlc
 #> yum install mozilla-vlc