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ffmpeg

Welcome to PkgBase. We're going to help you install ffmpeg. To start, find your distribution below.

Ubuntu

Install ffmpeg

Click the button above to install ffmpeg. To continue the installation, click "Yes" or "Install" on the dialog box that appears.

Problems?

Cannot Open Protocol / Unknown Protocol
  1. If you are not running Ubuntu 7.10+, make sure the package "apturl" is installed.
  2. In Konqueror & Epiphany, apturl support must be configured manually.
  3. Alternatively, download ffmpeg from the Ubuntu Packages archive.
Can not find 'ffmpeg'
  1. Make sure you have all of the necessary repositories enabled.
  2. You may have clicked on a bad link. If you typed this location in manually, please make sure you spelled the package name correctly.
An error occured
  1. You cancelled the install.
  2. The repository may be down. Please try again later.

Fedora

To install this package, type the following in a terminal as root:

yum install ffmpeg

Problems?

Permission Denied

This simply means that you need to run the command as root. An alternative would be:

su -
yum install ffmpeg

openSUSE

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Debian

To install this package, type the following into a terminal as root:

apt-get install ffmpeg

If you have the "apturl" package installed, you can install ffmpeg simply by clicking the link below:

Install ffmpeg

Problems?

Permission Denied
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

This simply means that you need to run the command as root. An alternative would be:

su -
apt-get install ffmpeg or sudo apt-get install ffmpeg depending on your system configuration.

Gentoo

To install ffmpeg, type the following into a terminal as root:

emerge ffmpeg

Problems?

Permission Denied

You must run emerge as root:

su -
emerge ffmpeg