Mike, BLFS will give you a laundry list of all you need to have installed to get VLC compiled.
I certainly admire and encourage your ambition, but this may be a little bit above your head (it is almost above mine).
Why do you want to compile VLC anyway?
What's wrong with your distro's package?
ET

Michael Havens writes:

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 <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

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!   ;-)
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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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