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Disable autoupdate vlc media player in Mac

  • April 5, 2018
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Hello folks ,

Can any one help me, how to disable the autoupdate of VLC media player using shell script.

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    • April 5, 2018

    Suppress automatic updates

    Creating the plist in /Library/Preferences

    defaults write /Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc SUEnableAutomaticChecks 0
    chown -R root:wheel /Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.plist
    chmod -R 644 /Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.plist

    defaults write /Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc SUSendProfileInfo 0
    chown -R root:wheel /Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.plist
    chmod -R 644 /Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.plist

    also helpful:

    Disable "Check for album art and metadata?" prompt, and auto updates for all users

    /usr/bin/defaults write /Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc VLCFirstRun -date "2015-05-22T00:00:00Z" 2>/dev/null
    /usr/bin/defaults write /Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc SUEnableAutomaticChecks -bool "false" 2>/dev/null
    /usr/bin/killall cfprefsd 2>/dev/null

    Disable metadata-network-access in User Template

    /bin/mkdir -p /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/ 2>/dev/null
    /bin/echo "# Allow metadata network access (boolean)" > /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/vlcrc 2>/dev/null
    /bin/echo "#metadata-network-access=0" >> /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/vlcrc 2>/dev/null
    /usr/sbin/chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc 2>/dev/null
    /bin/chmod -R 700 /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc 2>/dev/null

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