VLC is not working on Ubuntu 22.04

Question

I just upgraded my system from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04, however, the VLC media player is not working at all, I tried to uninstall it and re-install it (vlc 3.0.18) again using sudo snap install vlc but it's still not launching

I tried the solutions from this thread, but nothing worked. One solution suggested to install from ppa:videolan/master-daily and then sudo apt-get install vlc and it did work, however, the app was unstable. I checked their bug tracking system, no one reported such an issue over there.

Answer 1

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

sudo rm /var/cache/fontconfig/*
rm ~/.cache/fontconfig/*
fc-cache -r

See the original post

Answer 2

1. Have you tried installing VLC from the default repository by just using the following command:

   sudo apt install vlc
   

2. You can also try installing VLC using flatpak:

   sudo apt install flatpak
   sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
   flatpak install flathub org.videolan.VLC
   

You can refer to following guide.

https://linuxgenie.net/how-to-install-vlc-in-ubuntu-22-04/

Answer 3

Faced the same issue.

VLC 3.0.18 installed from Snap is missing this package:

sudo apt install libaribb24-0

Answer 4

Open "Applications", uninstall the snap-VLC, reinstall VLC from "ubuntu-jammy-universe (deb)"
There is a drop-down in the upper right corner which says "snap-store (Snap)" by default

Edit: Check if you have corrupted packages (after upgrade). Me, I had a "broken" libdvd... So you may try to fix this first:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg

Answer 5

I ran these commands and they worked for me. I am using Ubuntu 24.04

sudo apt install libaribb24-0
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Answer 6

I had the same issue for me I solve it by removing the previously installed version (I installed from App Center) and install it from a default repo

sudp apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sodo apt install vlc -y