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= Installing and Running VLC
Lyle Corman ; Ankur Sinha
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:revdate: 2019
:category: Software installation
:tags: How-to VLC
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== Prerequisites
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* VLC is provided by the RPMFusion repositories. xref:rpmfusion-setup.adoc[Use these instructions to enable them].
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== Installing VLC
* Install VLC:
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$ sudo dnf install vlc
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== Running VLC
* To run the VLC media player using GUI:
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. Open the launcher by pressing the _Super_ key.
. Type _vlc_.
. Press _Enter_.
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* To run VLC from the command line:
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$ vlc _source_
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Replace _source_ with path to the file to be played, URL, or other data source. For more details, see link:https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Command_line/#Opening_streams[Opening streams] on VideoLAN wiki.
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