Installing VLC Using VLC Daily PPA on Ubuntu 12.04
You can install a VLC by adding the VLC Daily Build PPA.
To add the PPA and install VLC open a terminal window (press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy+paste the following lines:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc
When VLC is installed you can close the terminal window and to start VLC press the SuperKey and type: vlc.