could someone help me install vlc 1.1.10

[Michael Havens]

well.... I post a message to lfs-chat so let's see what they say.

cat /etc/issue;uname -a
Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca \n \l
Linux c521 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:24 PM, <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:

> 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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