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==Installing VLC==

There are VLC binaries available for the many OSes, but not for all supported ones. If there are no binaries for your OS or if you want to change the default settings, you can compile VLC from sources.

===Windows===

VLC works under Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP.
Download the self-extracting package from the [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html VLC Windows download page]. Launch the '''.exe''' to install VLC.

===Mac OS X===

Download the Mac OS X package from the [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html VLC MacOS X download page]. Double-click on the icon of the package: an icon will appear on your Desktop, right beside your drive(s). Open it and drag the VLC application from the resulting window to the place where you want to install it (it should be '''/Applications''').

===BeOS===

Download the Zip file from the [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-beos.html VLC BeOS download page]. Unzip the file in a directory to install VLC.

===Debian GNU/Linux===

====Debian stable (sarge)====

Add the following lines to your '''/etc/apt/sources.list''':
 deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian stable main
 deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian stable main

Then, for a normal install, do:

 # '''apt-get update'''
 # '''apt-get install vlc libdvdcss2'''

====Debian testing (etch)====

You should not be using Debian testing unless you perfectly know what you are doing. It is almost impossible to support Debian testing and there are no plans to do it.

For more informations on Debian testing, please look: [http://www.debian.org/devel/testing testing page].

====Debian unstable (sid)====

Add the following lines to your '''/etc/apt/sources.list''':

 deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main
 deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main

Then, for a normal install, do:

 # '''apt-get update'''
 # '''apt-get install vlc libdvdcss2'''

===Linux Mandrake===

There are VLC packages for Mandrake 9.1 and cooker.

To install them, add the following sources for either Mandrake 9.1 or Cooker (you can use [http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ Easy urpmi] for that): ''contrib'' from the core distribution and ''plf'' (Penguin Liberation Front) from the external add-ons.

Then install the required packages with '''urpmi''':

 # '''urpmi libdvdcss2 libdvdplay0 wxvlc vlc-plugin-a52 vlc-plugin-ogg vlc-plugin-mad'''

===Linux Redhat===

Download the RPM package ''vlc'' and the packages listed in the ''required libraries and codecs'' section (the other packages are optional) from the [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-redhat.html VLC Red Hat download page] and put them all into the same directory.

Then install the RPM packages you have downloaded:

 # '''rpm -U *.rpm'''

If you have not installed all the RPM packages included with your distribution, you may be asked to install a few of them first.

===Compile the sources by yourself (for every other OS)===

For more detailed information on compiling VLC by yourself, please have a look at the documentation on our [http://developers.videolan.org developers website].

==Uninstalling VLC==

===Windows===

Click on the ''Uninstall VLC'' icon that was created during installation.

===Mac OS X===

Drag the VLC application to your trash can. You can also remove the configuration file and the cache files in '''~/Library/Preferences/VLC/'''. There is an AppleScript on the disk-image which lets you do this automatically.

===BeOS===

Delete the '''vlc-version''' directory. You can also remove the configuration file '''/boot/home/config/settings/vlcrc'''.

===Debian GNU/Linux===

Remove the packages that you installed:

 # '''apt-get remove --purge vlc libdvdcss2'''

===GNU/Linux Redhat, Mandrake and SuSE===

Uninstall the RPM packages that you installed:

 # '''rpm -e vlc-version vlc-mad-version wxvlc-version libdvdcss2-version libdvdpsi1-version'''

===If you compiled VLC from sources===

Go to the directory containing VLC sources and execute

 # '''make uninstall'''

You can then remove the VLC sources.

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