could someone help me install vlc 1.1.10

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

What distro do you have (cat /etc/issue;uname -a) and which Vlc version?
It may no even be Vlc, Vlc relies on a bunch of libraries.
Installing those libraries from source looks to me like a great way to get 
your system hosed.
YMMV...
ET 


Michael Havens writes: 

> Well when I run home videos the video portion of the film can't keep up
> with the audio. Likely the cpu is to blame but on another discussion board
> one guys solution was to run 1.1.10 . I am just grasping at straws here! 
> 
> :-)~MIKE~(-: 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:02 PM, <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote: 
> 
>> Mike, BLFS will give you a laundry list of all you need to have installed
>> to get VLC compiled.
>> I certainly admire and encourage your ambition, but this may be a little
>> bit above your head (it is almost above mine).
>> Why do you want to compile VLC anyway?
>> What's wrong with your distro's package?
>> ET 
>>
>> Michael Havens writes: 
>>
>>> okay... it was late a late night when I wrote that last message but I am
>>> up
>>> now fresh (sorta).
>>> WHen I run ./configure the last line it spits out is:
>>>    configure: error: Couldn't find DBus >= 1.0.0, install libdbus-dev ?
>>> Am I to assume that I need to compile libdbus-dev?
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote: 
>>>
>>>> I did try to install it with the given directions.
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:17 AM, <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote: 
>>>>
>>>>> Cow, deer, moose, it's all meat.
>>>>> Extrapolate and interpolate!   ;-)
>>>>> ET
>>>>> Michael Havens writes: 
>>>>>
>>>>>> well... those instructions are for VLC version 2.1.5.
>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:19 AM, <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote: 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Enjoy:
>>>>>>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/multimedia/vlc.html
>>>>>>> ET
>>>>>>> Michael Havens writes: 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Well, someone told me that they run vlc 1.1.10 and that everything
>>>>>>>> runs
>>>>>>>> perfectly where they had later versions that did not run as well. As
>>>>>>>> such
>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>> am trying to compile vlc for my computer.
>>>>>>>> Here is what I did:
>>>>>>>>   424  wget '
>>>>>>>> http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/1.1.9/vlc-1.
>>>>>>>> 1.9.tar.bz2'
>>>>>>>> --edit--
>>>>>>>>   427  tar -xjf vlc-1.1.10.tar.bz2
>>>>>>>>   428  ls
>>>>>>>>   429  cd vlc-1.1.10/
>>>>>>>> --edit--
>>>>>>>>   433  ./configure
>>>>>>>> configure: error: Couldn't find DBus >= 1.0.0, install libdbus-dev ?
>>>>>>>>   435  sudo apt-get install libdbus-dev
>>>>>>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>>>>>>> Building dependency tree
>>>>>>>> Reading state information... Done
>>>>>>>> E: Unable to locate package libdbus-dev
>>>>>>>> (after searching for how to install the program found that installing
>>>>>>>> libhal-dev installs libdbus-dev)
>>>>>>>>   436  sudo apt-get install libhal-dev
>>>>>>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>>>>>>> Building dependency tree
>>>>>>>> Reading state information... Done
>>>>>>>> E: Unable to locate package libhal-dev
>>>>>>>>   437  sudo dpkg -i libdbus-dev
>>>>>>>> dpkg: error processing archive libdbus-dev (--install):
>>>>>>>> cannot access archive: No such file or directory
>>>>>>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>>>>>> libdbus-dev
>>>>>>>> --edit--
>>>>>>>>   439  sudo dpkg --install  libhal-dev
>>>>>>>> dpkg: error processing archive libhal-dev (--install):
>>>>>>>> cannot access archive: No such file or directory
>>>>>>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>>>>>> libhal-dev
>>>>>>>>   440  history
>>>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: 
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