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 wrote: > >> I did try to install it with the given directions. >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:17 AM, 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, 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~(-: >>>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss