How to get ffmpeg installed on my system?

[Bob Elzer]

you can run rehash if you run csh to load any new programs in your path

also the command. whereis ffmpeg  should tell you its path


On Jan 3, 2018 4:56 PM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

> > Strange... did you get an error while it was installing?
>
> no
>
>
> > On 01/03/2018 12:39 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> >> Thanks to all who responded,
> >> but ffmpeg is apparently still not found on my system.
> >>
> >> cat workshop2.VOB | ffmpeg -i - workit.mp4
> >>
> >> ffmpeg: command not found
> >>
> >> This was after I did this:
> >>
> >> sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
> >>
> >> Then this:
> >>
> >> dpkg -l *ffmpeg*
> >>
> >> Got this result:
> >>
> >> |
> >> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/
> trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> >> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> >> ||/ Name              Version       Architecture  Description
> >> +++-=================-=============-=====-==================
> =====================
> >> ii  ffmpegthumbs      4:4.14.2-0ubu amd64 video thumbnail generator
> >> using
> >> ffmpeg
> >> ii  gstreamer0.10-ffm 0.10.13-5ubun amd64 FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
> >> ii  kffmpegthumbnaile 1.1.0-0ubuntu amd64 video thumbnailer for KDE
> >> ii  libffmpegthumbnai 2.0.8-2       amd64 shared library for
> >> ffmpegthumbnailer
> >> ii  libxine1-ffmpeg   1.1.21-2ubunt amd64 MPEG-related plugins for
> >> libxine1
> >>
> >>
> >>
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