The fact is my box runs Ubuntu 5.10 and has no internet access. So I just can't "apt-get install vlc". Instead, I had to manually download deb packages from packages.ubuntu.com (vlc and its dependencies) on another machine.
However, when I try to install vlc, it says that wxvlc is not installed/configured. So I dpkg -i wxvlc. But wxvlc says that it cannot be installed, as vlc is not installed.
This is driving me crazy. Give me some ideas, please.