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'

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  427  tar -xjf vlc-1.1.10.tar.bz2 

  428  ls

  429  cd vlc-1.1.10/

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  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

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  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

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