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I successfully uncompressed the .tar.xz file and then I also ran the ./configure command and I think it also worked. But the problem comes when I try to execute make command.

The given INSTALL file in the compressed file goes as follows:

INSTALL file for the VLC media player
=====================================

More extensive information for *nix, Windows and Mac OS X users can be
found here: http://wiki.videolan.org/Compile_VLC

People installing VLC for Windows from source MUST read:
http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile

Bootstrapping VLC
=================

If you retrieved VLC from the git server and do not have yet a "configure"
script, please run:

   ./bootstrap

Configuring VLC
===============

A typical way to configure VLC is:

   ./configure

See `./configure --help' for more information.

If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to compile with debugging
symbols:

   make distclean ; ./configure --enable-debug

We recommend using GCC to build VLC, though some people reported success
with the Intel C compiler (version 8) as well. GCC version 3.3 or higher is
required. On older systems (e.g. FreeBSD 4.x), please select a more recent
version manually by setting the CC and CXX environment variables
appropriately while running the ./configure shell script.


Building VLC
============

Once configured, run `make' to build VLC.


Installing and running VLC
==========================

You can install the VLC and its plugins by typing:

   make install

But you don't need to install it if you don't want to; VLC can be launched
from the current directory as well:

   ./vlc


Building packages
=================

To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info
   git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/vlc.git debian
and then
   git-buildpackage
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    Copy/pasting a tutorial here is useless, especially the mac and win parts. What is the actual error you get when running make? Did you install build-essentials package?
    – Mark Kirby
    Jan 18, 2016 at 13:36
  • sorry im new to ubuntu, how to do that??
    – jimmy
    Jan 18, 2016 at 13:38
  • error was: make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
    – jimmy
    Jan 18, 2016 at 13:39
  • That make error suggests that the preceding ./configure command did not complete successfully: I suggest you go back and examine its output carefully for why
    – steeldriver
    Jan 18, 2016 at 13:53
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    Especially considering that you're new to Ubuntu I suggest you use easier and more user-friendly methods to install apps. In this case you should be able to find VLC in the Software Center, or - if you think the VLC version there is a little old - you might just enter these commands in terminal: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily and then sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install vlc.
    – Sadi
    Jan 18, 2016 at 14:21

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I don't know about that version of vlc you have from git, I could not build that many many configuration errors, however I could build this one, from the vlc site.

First we need to install these

sudo apt-get install git libtool build-essential pkg-config autoconf
sudo apt-get build-dep vlc

Now get and build vlc

wget videolan.mirrors.uk2.net/vlc/2.2.1/vlc-2.2.1.tar.xz
tar xf ~/vlc-2.2.1.tar.xz
cd ~/vlc-2.2.1
./bootstrap
./configure
make

You can run it from here, or install it with

sudo make install

Tested on 15.10

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  • You are welcome, but, if it worked please click the check mark to say thanks.
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