VLC for Linpus Linux

The Acer Aspire One comes with a video player app, but it's not the best.  VLC is far superior but not available through Package Manager.   Linux software archives are called 'repositories', and VLC is missing from the ones pre-programmed by Acer.

Installing with Yum: here we're installing the Nano text editor but VLC's install looks much the same The VLC website will tell you to use the Livna repository, details of which are included in a .rpm file you can download and install.  

Once you have, open the terminal as above and type sudo yum install vlc. You'll be asked some questions along the way, but eventually you'll have VLC installed and ready to play a wider range of video formats than the AA1's Media Master app can.

VLC can be run from the Advanced Menu, or you can add it to the desktop, as above.  If you choose the latter, you'll find VLC's .desktop file is down as livna-vlc.desktop.  You can change this to vlc.desktop using the command line. Type cd /usr/share/applications then sudo mv livna-vlc.desktop vlc.desktop to change the file's name.