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Installing VLC Player on the Acer Aspire One

August 14th, 2009 John Leave a comment Go to comments

I wanted to add a better video player to my AA1, to support more formats, and the general opinion is that VLC is one of the best players out there.
However a number of people have issues installing it on the Acer Aspire One.

Acer have released a version through their site but it is missing a number of supported formats, so it’s bets to install the full version.

I found a blog which outlined the entire procedure split across 2 posts, so I thought that I would post the entire procedure here.

My source of info is
http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/11/installing-vlc-09-on-aspire-one-linux.html
and
http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/09/updated-repositories.html

Here is the Procedure:

  1. Open a terminal Window. (press Alt & F2, click in the run in terminal box, and the click run)
  2. Type sudo yum install fedora-release
  3. Press enter.
  4. Type wget http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/8/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-8-6.noarch.rpm
  5. Press enter.
  6. Type sudo rpm -U rpmfusion-free-release-8-6.noarch.rpm
  7. Press enter
  8. Type sudo yum install vlc mozilla-vlc
  9. Press enter

VLC player will now be in the Advanced Menu.

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  1. Gill
    August 26th, 2009 at 14:05 | #1
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    Hi John – me again ! (from Songbird forum). I’ve completed the above tasks to install VLC, but am coming up against dependancy problems.
    Error: Missing Dependency: libdca.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libavutil.so.49 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libavformat.so.52 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libavcodec.so.51 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libdvbpsi.so.5 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libUsageEnvironment.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libliveMedia.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libgroupsock.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libx264.so.60 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libtwolame.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libswscale.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libBasicUsageEnvironment.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libmpeg2.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: liba52.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libpostproc.so.51 is needed by package vlc-core
    Error: Missing Dependency: libfaad.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core

    I’ve double checked your dependancy source link, and Terminal confirms that :
    Package fedora-release – 8-6.transition.noarch is already installed.
    Nothing to do

    Any thoughts ?? This is the last piece of software I want to install, and as usual, it isn’t going smoothly !
    thanks
    gill

  2. John
    August 26th, 2009 at 15:13 | #2
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    Hi Gill

    I’ve left a message for you in the songbird thread as well as I dont think you should give up on it just yet, many Linux users have got it working.

    did steps 4 and 6 work ok above?

    Cheers
    John M

  3. John
    August 26th, 2009 at 15:25 | #3
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    Hi Gill,

    If you are having a problem with my method of installing VLC player, Acer have their own method, which may be easier.
    Have a look at http://www.acer.com/aspireone/support/files/fun.html#002

    This may be a quick win, or at least give us a clue ;-)

  4. Gill
    September 3rd, 2009 at 08:16 | #4
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    thanks John. I’ve installed it from the acer link above.
    But it still won’t play the MPEG-4 video I’ve downloaded onto the hard drive (or the itunes library). Maybe I’m just trying to get it to do things that it can’t do ! (sigh) I feel like a real numptie !
    g

  5. John
    September 3rd, 2009 at 10:06 | #5
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    Hi Gill.

    Please don’t feel like a numpty, Linpus is so locked down that it can be a pain in the neck for everyone. the good thing is that after you get it sorted then it performs well (given its a netbook anyway)
    VLC plays MPEG-4 without problem. (unless Acer have altered their version) do you have another video you can try just to prove that it’s not VLC?
    Do you get an error message when you try and play your video?

    It might struggle playing Itunes protected videos though….although I’ve not tried it.

    I’m really want to get you up and running.
    Cheers
    John M

  6. John
    September 8th, 2009 at 18:51 | #6
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    Ive updated the procedure slightly – this should solve any difficulties.

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