deb http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/intrepid-i386/arch ./
fails because there is no [arch] directory. If I remove that last directory, I get an empty Package file in /var/lib/apt/lists. I could finally fetch it from git.
Hello, For reasons still unknown VLC takes about 55 seconds to start up (just the program, no file). I uninstalled vlc, vlc-nox, vlclibcore*, etc v.1.0.0~ppa3 and installed 0.9.9a cleanly, and I got exactly the same behaviour; it didn't happen before. The 55-seconds freeze is just between: [0x955614...
Indeed, the Windows (cmd) and Bash shells are radically different. In most Unix shells, the # character outside of a quoted string makes the rest of the line a "comment", so everything after it is ignored, and the {} are also special. That's why you must enclose it in quotes, which will be...