Vlc (Videolan media player) Fedora 24 Installation [solved]

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I've executed both:
rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-24-1.rpm

And, "dnf install vlc" no no avail.
I checked to Save the applicable Repositories in YUM Extender Repsoitories, but vlc won't install. The RPMFusion & Fedora websites are helpful.
Has anyone installed vlc in Fedora 24 successfully?

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hope this can help: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/88485/vlc-installation-on-fedora-24/
good luck.

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Use united rpms instead https://unitedrpms.github.io/

Rpmfusion for F24 isnt ready

dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UnitedRPMs/unitedrpms.github.io/master/unitedrpms.repo

rpm --import https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UnitedRPMs/unitedrpms.github.io/master/URPMS-GPG-PUBLICKEY-Fedora-24

dnf update
dnf install vlc
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Hello,
I did find the article that was referenced as well as the instructions using UnitedRPMs at github. However, the RPMFUSION.org site was referenced on the Videolan web site.
Due to unpleasant experiences with Windows over the years, I don't install software without assurances it's safe, and I'm not familiar with UnitedRPM.
The RPMFUSION website does list files for vlc in the application/multimedia folder, but I couldn't get it to work.

Thanks for the help and your time.

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rpmfusion is the goto for Fedora 3rd party, however with some infrastructure issues they have been lagging behind keeping up.

unitedrpms is a fairly new repo for F24 onwards, nothing suggesting its untrustworthy at the moment.

Looking, it looks like rpmfusion might be up to date now, id suggest updating your repos and trying again.

What does dnf info vlc show?

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http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-24.noarch.rpm

install that

then run

dnf update
dnf install vlc

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The output of dnf info vlc is:
Last metadata expiration check: 2 days, 19:43:38 ago on Sun Jun 26 17:23:10 2016.
Installed Packages
Name : vlc
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 0
Version : 3.0.0
Release : 6.20160608gitbb83680.fc24
Size : 4.2 M
Repo : @System
From repo : unitedrpms
Summary : The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and
: server
URL : http://www.videolan.org
License : GPLv2+
Description : VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and
: multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video
: formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming
: protocols. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to
: stream in uni-cast or multi-cast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.

Running
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-24.noarch.rpm5
fails.

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I reinstalled Fedora 24 and was able to install vlc from the RPMFusion repository.
I guess the repository wasn't completely done when I originally tried it.
It's nice to know that UnitedRPMs is also available.
'Good learning experience.

Thanks for everything !

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