This takes all the crap produced by the first command and "pipes" it over to the command grep, which ONLY returns lines that have the string "bin" in them. So, I can use grep to filter out the rest of it. I know I am looking for a line that includes "bin" because I'm looking for an executable. You mileage may vary, but that generated several hundred possible options on my computer, because the string vlc occurs many many times on the computer.
You could have used the locate command to find vlc in a single command (at a terminal prompt): You can learn more by reading the man pages with "man locate" or "man find" at the terminal (drop the ""). My computer has over 1,500 files in this directory.Ģ) If you are looking for a file, especially a system file, there are two good programs to use. You can use Dolphin to browse over and look at it (it will take forever to load in Dolphin). But since you asked, I'll take the brief liberty to use this as a teachable moment.ġ) Most applications that you can use as a non-root user can be found in /usr/bin. That should answer your immediate question and let you use VLC, which I agree is an excellent choice. If you prefer the VLC version with the pretty skins: I'm guessing that you are using FireFox as a web-browser?
Īfter installation you can see the vlc in the application list. Step 2 » Just press ” install ” and wait for the installation to complete. You can see the VLC media player in the list. type ” VLC ” in the search box ( Top right ). Step 1 » Goto ” Ubuntu software center ”. After installation, you can start using VLC player. It will take some time to install VLC package and all the dependency softwares along with vlc plugins. Step 2 » After updating the repository install VLC package along with required plugins sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin mozilla-plugin-vlc
Step 1 » Before starting the installation we need to update the sudo apt-get update By default ubuntu 12.04 contains VLC package in the repository, just we need to install the package. here we can see how to install VLC player on ubuntu 12.04. VLC media player is the best media player alternative for both windows and ubuntu. VLC player is one of the best software for watching movies of different formats (avi, wmv, mpg, mpeg, mov, ram, mp4, swf, flv ).
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