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I'm bumping this up because I still can't get it to work.

I deleted the plugin cache, and now this happens. $ vlc -vvv VLC media player 0.8.6 Janus [00000001] main vlc debug: checking builtin modules [00000001] main vlc debug: checking plugin modules [00000001] main vlc debug: loading plugins cache file /home/tim/.vlc/cache/plugins-04041e.dat [00000001] ma...

Well, I tried updating it, but it still won't open. I get a different error now. VLC: $ vlc VLC media player 0.8.6 Janus Segmentation fault VLC -vvv $ vlc -vvv VLC media player 0.8.6 Janus [00000001] main vlc debug: checking builtin modules [00000001] main vlc debug: checking plugin modules [0000000...

VLC will not open properly. When I attempt to run it from terminal, it says the following: $ vlc VLC media player 0.8.4 Janus [00000317] main interface: creating httpd Remote control interface initialized, `h' for help vlc: could not connect to socket vlc: No such file or directory [00000323] lirc i...