I tried the suggestion in the post everything worked I think as far as installation. Here what it says: linux-a5ug:~ # sudo rug sa -t zypp http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.6/SuSE/10.2 VLC Adding zypp service... 100% Successfully added service 'http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol...