I have two versions of VLC installed on the same system

Question

There are two VLCs:

VLC (The ultimate media player) - version- 3.0.0
VLC media player (Read, capture, broadcast your multimedia streams) - version - 2.2.6-6

I am worried that one of them may be fake. Which one is safe?

How you installed these packages? – pandafy Feb 25 '18 at 14:18 — pandafy, Feb 25 '18 at 14:18

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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It is simple:

VLC 2.2.6-6 is from official 17.10 Ubuntu repository:

check with apt-cache policy vlc
VLC 3.0.0 may be a Snap

check with snap list | grep vlc

edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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answered Feb 25 '18 at 14:31

N0rbert

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