Install VLC 1.1.6 In Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Via PPA

VLC 1.1.6 was released yesterday, bringing security fixes and many improvements. Here's the complete VLC 1.1.6 changelog:

• Security updates in codecs and demuxers
• Support for RTP/PCM 24bits, audio/L24
• Faster Webm/VP8 decoding
• Major updates in most language translations
• KDE and PulseAudio integration improvements
• Subtitles fixes and improvements
• Improvements in visualisations and interfaces
• Codecs updates
• Many miscellaneous fixes

As usual, Roberto @ LFFL has uploaded the latest VLC 1.1.6 in his VLC PPA (available for Ubuntu Maverick only!) so install it using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/vlc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc

Thanks to Roberto for the news and PPA