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I SPEND A LOT OF TIME (PAST 15 DAYS)WORKING TO BUILD A VLC OVER LINUX RED HAT 9 FULL INSTALATION BUT AFTER I INSTALL ALL THE LIBS IT STILL DIDN'T RECOGNIZE THEM.
I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH LIBMATROSKA AND LIBML, MAY BE I INSTALL THEM IN A WRONG WAY, I DON'T KNOW. YESTERDAY I RE INSTALL RED HAT AN THE LIBS, (THEY MUST BE SHARED?? ./CONFIGURE --ENABLE-SHARED??) AFTER A LOOOOOTTT OF TIME INSTALLING, I START WITH THE VLC INSTALATION, WELL I HAVE THE FIRST PROBLEM WHEN CONFIGURE, VLC HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ALSA HEADERS IT DIDÑ'T FOUND IT, WELL I TYPE --DISABLE-ALSA --ENABLE-PORTAUDIO IT WORKS, THEN I TYPE "MAKE" LOOKS OK... SINCE I TRY TO RUN VLC...JE... IT SAYS, THERE IS NOT LIBMATROSKA AND LIBML ON MY SYSTEM.... (I AM WORKING WITH 8.5.2TEST)
WELL I RUN MAKE CLEAN AND TRY TO INSTALL 8.4.2 FROM RPMS, WELL THEY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE MY LIBS¡¡¡¡
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, I AM GOING CRAZY¡¡¡ PLEASE HELP ME

Redhat 8.5 is pretty old, the Videolan downloads do not even support RedHat
now just Fedora. This page may help you:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-redhat.html

download the fedora rpm and install with --nodeps option. If that fails you are going to have to search on google for the library files that are missing from your system. FC5 is out now as well, if you can I would upgrade to a newer linux system.

THANKS, I DO WHAT YOU SAID, BUT STILL HAVING PROBLEMS INSTALLING VLC, WHAT LINUX DISTRIBUTION MUST BE THE BEST (AND EASY...) TO INSTALL VLC, CAN YOU TELL ME?

Feroda 4 or 5 where pretty easy. Just install the OS.

then go

# yum install vlc

(it will get you the latest released version)

If you need the latest 0.8.5 - then you need to sync the latest source code from svn and build it. (A lengthy process)