I know..... I could compile  libdbus-dev (libhal-dev too?). What should the
prefix (./configure --prefix=/tools) be though?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

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