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At of early 2019 VLC is released but not yet available in the Ubuntu or Mint repos. You can fetch it from the videolan repo. Don't bother with snap (snapd) is crap broken link:At of early 2019 VLC is released but not yet available in the Ubuntu or Mint repos. You can fetch it from the videolan repo. <nowiki>E: Failed to fetch http://archive.linux.duke.edu/ubuntu/pool/main/s/snapd/snapd_2.34.2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found</nowiki>delivered only 2.2.7 not 3.0. failed.delivered only 2.2.7 not 3.0. failed. reason: " User’s who are using older versions of Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint, can also use above PPA to install/upgrade to latest VLC version, but the PPA only installs or upgrades to whichever latest VLC version available (latest VLC version offered by this PPA is 2.2.7). " My version of mint isn't that old. I guess "old" is relative. === via snap ===I have both an older 2.2.7 vlc and the newer 3.0.6 vlc on Linux Mint 18.3 by using snap sudo apt install snapd sudo snap install vlcOnce installed you can launch the newer vlc via command line: /snap/bin/vlc & The previous version will reside in the cinnamon menu, not the 3.x version. You will have to add that yourself. It is up to you if you want to remove the older version. I prefer to have both. snap desktop installation for cinnamon : /snap/vlc/770/meta/gui/vlc.desktop /snap/vlc/770/usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop