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Got it, forgot in Linux that you just simply provide the path for the command and it will open the proper instance of VLC. Path can be Grep'ed by typing in terminal. In my case it was /snap/bin/vlc, (Ubuntu 16.10)

I really like the new VLC 3.0 for Linux but when I use the command line option from Kodi Media Player, it defaults to VLC 2.2.0 Weathermax Version. How do I open The New version from command line or uninstall the old version without removing the new version?

Your VLC is misinstalled.

Yea no kidding but how come uninstalling with autoclean and autoremove deleting the ppa I got it from, adding the official ppa and reinstalling didn't work?

Also got this error at one time before uninstalling and reinstalling...vlc: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libvlc.so.5: undefined symbol: pl_Get

Hello, I installed the newest version of VLC and Custom skins and when I added custom skin the VLC player no longer works. I'm getting the following error in Terminal... steve@eodsteven:~$ vlc VLC media player 2.2.0-git Weatherwax (revision 2.2.0~~git20140409+r56317+122~ubuntu14.04.1) Segmentation f...