VideoLan released it’s major version 2 of their popular media player for openSUSE on 18 Feb 2012, but it is not available through the Ubuntu repository; you can still install by adding Nate Muench (Mink) repository. Check out the New Features in VLC Media Player.
Method 1:
VideoLan provides easy one click installation package for the Vlc media player, click Here to download the one click install.
Method 2:
Alternatively you can add the vlc repositories manually, go to YaST —> Software —> Software Repositories —> Add —> Specify url —> Add the following detail and then click on next.
Type : HTTP —> Edit Parts of the URL
Servername : download.videolan.org
Directory : /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/12.1
You might requires to click on trust to import the public key.
Open YaST —> Software Management —> Search for VLC —> Select the packages and then click on Accept to install it.
Method 3:
Open Terminal and then switch to root user.
Add VLC repository.
root@geeksite:~ # zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/12.1 vlc
Refresh the system repository.
root@geeksite:~ # zypper ref
Install VLC media player 2.0
root@geeksite:~ # zypper in vlc
Start VLC media player.
Kickoff —> Application —> Multimedia —> Audio Player.
Or by command line mode ( Root user not allowed to run VLC media player although you can enable it on own risk).
raj@geeksite:~ $ vlc
Screen Shot of VLC media player 2.0 on openSUSE 12.1
That’s all!