could someone help me install vlc 1.1.10

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

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?
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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 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
>> I did try to install it with the given directions. 
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-: 
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:17 AM, <kitepilot at 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 at 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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