How To Install The Latest Version of VLC Media Player on Ubuntu

The current relase of VLC is version 2.0.7 which brings many improvements and bug fixes:

• Fix track selection for PowerPC machines.
• Fix audio decoding for WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4.
• Fix audio encoding for MP3 and AAC.
• Numerous translations updates and new Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations.
• Fix a memory leak when creating AVI files
• Fix two XSS vulnerabilities in the Web UI
• Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability in some playlist files
• Fix a libVLC crash in MacOS X port

Install the latest version of VLC on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail
So, if you are using Ubuntu Raring, you can install the latest version of VLC by adding the below PPA:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install vlc

Install the latest version of VLC on Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04
Otherwise, if you are using the older version of Ubuntu, this PPA might give what you need:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc2
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install vlc