Re: could someone help me install vlc 1.1.10

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/
>
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> 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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