this guide does not work !! (WIP)

$ aptitude install git libgcrypt-dev libqt4-dev\
 libgl1-mesa-dev libxcb-xv0-dev libxcb-shm0-dev\
 libx11-xcb-dev xcb libpostproc-dev libswscale-dev\
 libavformat-dev libavutil-extra-52 libx264-dev:i386\
 libavcodec-dev libmad0-dev liblua50-dev libdbus-1-dev\
 dh-autoreconf autotools-dev liblua5.1-dev libvlccore-dev\

$ mkdir -p ~/workspace/vlc
$ cd workspace/vlc
$ wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/1.1.9/vlc-1.1.9.tar.bz2
$ tar xjf vlc-1.1.9.tar.bz2
$ cd vlc-1.1.9/

$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure --help

review list of configure options and decide which you would like to use

check official docs

i want to install vlc in $HOME so i'll use

$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/vlc-1.1.9