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 >> > >