I'll see what can be done about some of those instructions. For now, though:
This would be great if I knew what repositories to add
EDIT: uncommenting the sources.list file DID allow sudo apt build-dep vlc to install stuff. Atempting to compile VLC after that, however, still gave me a...
"E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list"
That got me through the XCB issue, but now it's complaining about ffmpeg being missing! I know I installeg ffmpeg because I still have the deb file that checkinstall gave me!
attempting to build THAT from source yields...
As an arbitrary exercise, I'm trying to build VLC media player from source in LXLE. One of the first things I do after a fresh format and install is copy this from a text file on my Windows partition and paste it into sakura:
sudo apt-get install git build-essential pkg-config libtool automake...