never mind command 424. First I downloaded  vlc-1.1.10.tar.bz2  from
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/1.1.10/


:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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~(-:
>