Install VLC media player 1.0 on ubuntu

Ubuntu Jaunty has VLC media player installed by default,but not the latest version.You can check it by navigate to Help->About in the VLC player window.VLC 1.0 has gotten several cool new features.Here I’ll tell how to install it on ubuntu 9.04
1.Run this command in terminal to open sources.list file.
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
2.Add the two lines to the end of the file,then save and close the file.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/vlc/ubuntu
jaunty maindeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/vlc/
ubuntu jaunty main
3.Get the key by following command
sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 
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4.Install and upgrade VLC media player
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vlc

sudo apt-get upgrade vlc
You can skip the third command if VLC running well after sudo apt-get install vlc.

vlc
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