Giving me this menu while running your mentioned command installation option. Mac/Linux Open a terminal window by pressing command and space on your keyboard to open Spotlight, typing Terminal, and pressing enter. To do so, open a terminal and type the two following commands: sudo apt update sudo apt install ffmpeg When the process completes, FFmpeg should now be installed on your system. I want to upgrade to ffmpeg 2.8 version or atleast 2.4 The fastest and easiest method for installing FFmpeg on Ubuntu is to use the apt command to download it from Ubuntu’s software repository. ) Am I missing something? Do I have to compile it or re-configure it?įollowing is current console output for ffmpeg 2.2.5 on my server ffmpeg version 2.2.5 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developersīuilt on 09:24:02 with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)Ĭonfiguration: -enable-gpl -enable-version3 -enable-nonfree -enable-postproc -enable-libtheora -enable-libx264 -enable-libvpx -enable-libmp3lame When I run ffmpeg -version or ffmpeg -buildconf it show me the same library and ffmpeg version as before. ( I tried doing the same on my local machine, before I do this on the server, which have ffmpeg 2.4.3 installed and after updating around 238 MB and tons of library.

I have tried the following commands but they are not working.

I want to update it to latest version and codecs/libraries. I have ffmpeg version 2.2.5 installed on my server which is running on ubuntu.

Update ffmpeg ubuntu