Vlc won't play DVD's on Ubuntu, or Kubuntu Intrepid

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 21:47, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 21:25 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > I see that Jaunty is using vlc 0.9.8a, which may well resolve the
> > problem, but dependency hell needs to download 61.8MB of archives, so as
> > to install the Jaunty version of vlc.
>
> Yeah, what I meant was to apt-src vlc and compile it for Intrepid. I
> guess I should have said so :)

I've a lot of experience of compiling packages from source tarballs, but have 
no experience of downloading a src package from a distros repo, vlc for 
Jaunty for example, and then compiling it for use on Intrepid.

Any pointers on how to procede with that, or perhaps a link to a HOWTO would 
be welcome. I am willing to give it a go, as long as I don't trash my current 
Ubuntu Intrepid install in the process

Nigel.
>
> >  Logically it would use less bandwidth to just install
> > the Hardy version of vlc which has no deps, and I know that works. I
> > don't want to end up with a mix and match of both Intrepid, and Jaunty
> > packages on my Ubuntu Intrepid install. If it had just been the vlc
> > packages, then no problem.
>
> Sure, I did not mean it as a fix for your current problem, which is well
> taken care of by the Hardy version. It's just a chance to make sure that
> future Ubuntu versions work with your system - filing a bug when Jaunty
> is released might be too late.