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   Al Stuill to Marco Moock   
   Re: VLC appimage no longer opens in Ubun   
   17 Aug 22 15:36:48   
   
   From: no_spam@please.net   
      
   On 8/17/22 02:09, Marco Moock wrote:   
   > Am Dienstag, 16. August 2022, um 19:41:18 Uhr schrieb Al Stuill:   
   >   
   >> After a recent update, my VLC media player appimage no longer works   
   >> on Ubuntu and I get the following message: Failed to register   
   >> Appimage in AppImageLauncherFS: could not open map file.  I believe   
   >> this occurred after a general Ubuntu update and not VLC specific.  I   
   >> am on Ubuntu 18.04 and the VLC appimage is 3.0.11.1.  I've also tried   
   >> installing a non-appimage of VLC.  Videos play, but many are choppy   
   >> (like I've lost all the codecs) and I have no control over audio,   
   >> video or any other effects built into VLC.  Any ideas how to get back   
   >> my good playing appimage version welcome and thanks in advance.   
   >   
   > Try the apt version.   
   >   
   > sudo apt install vlc   
   >   
   > Additionally, your OS is very old. You should install 22.04.   
   >   
      
   Ok, thanks.  This seems to work and even the questionable videos now   
   play well.  Now the question is how to uninstall the three other VLCs   
   while just leaving today's along with the codecs?   
      
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