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! ;-)
>>> 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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