That is of course exactly what I did. Problem is that the vlc 3.0 bionic build depends on lots of stuff with higher version numbers than there are in 16.04 xenial and I don’t want to do to a release upgrade at this point.

Hi Thorsten,

Try to set bionic repo as stated by Marcus then use use “apt-update” & “apt-get install vlc”

How did you manage that? It did not work on my system due to massive dependency problems – starting with libc6, wich has to be >=2.27, while xenial (16.04) comes with 2.23. And upgrading libc6 without upgrading the whole system is nearly impossible without breaking other stuff.

Add file ‘/etc/apt/preferences.d/bionic’ with:
Package: *
Pin: release a=bionic
Pin-Priority: 10

Add this line to ‘/etc/apt/sources.list’:
deb http://ee.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic main restricted universe multiverse

Then upgrade ‘vlc’ manually.
There’s probably a much better way to do this (perhaps by pinning the vlc package to a version >=3), but at least this is much better than those awful snaps.

How about assisting people to install vlc 3 *properly* instead?

(Also, you need to use the –classic switch or it can’t access things like your external drives. But that won’t fix the million other problems with the snaps abomination.)