You are absolutely right.
On page
http://www.videlan.org is proudly written :
VLC media player 0.9.8a
Download Now for Ubuntu Linux
The link points to page
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html,
and there you can find advice
...
Command line way
You need to check that a "multiverse" mirror is listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd mozilla-plugin-vlc
...
I added all possible repositories to my /etc/apt/sources.list,
but I always get the version 0.8.6e, that is a bit old at least.
Everywhere in the forum here you get the same advice for Linux:
... compile own version ...
To maintainers:
IS IT so hard to build a statically linked version for latest 0.9.8 and nighly builds.
and to put it in a directory ?
On page
http://nightlies.videolan.org/ is written for Ubuntu linux:
...
For Ubuntu Intrepid I386 (unstable) add the following line to your sources.list:
deb
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/intrepid-i386/arch ./
For Ubuntu Intrepid AMD64 (unstable) add the following line to your sources.list:
deb
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/intrepid-amd64/arch ./
Nice, but directories .../arch are nowhere to see ?
Any advice for a working nightlty ubuntu/kubuntu/xubuntu binary ?