I did try to install it with the given directions.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:17 AM, <kitepilot@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@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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