How to install ffmpeg 4.4.2 or higher on Ubuntu 20.04 server
Keith
keithw at caramail.com
Thu Dec 28 15:52:37 UTC 2023
On 12/28/23 3:53 AM, Bo Berglund wrote:
> I have run into a problem with ffmpeg on my Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server...
>
> The server is used for many things like Subversion server, OpenVPN server, Video
> file server and more.
>
> Now I found an error in one of the video downloaders used on this server which
> is apparently resolved in ffmpeg 4.4 and above.
>
> On this server I have:
>
> apt policy ffmpeg
> ffmpeg:
> Installed: 7:4.3.2-0york0~18.04
> Candidate: 7:4.3.2-0york0~18.04
>
> On another server which was upgraded to 22.04 a few months back I see:
>
> $ apt policy ffmpeg
> ffmpeg:
> Installed: (none)
> Candidate: 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm3
>
> So the 4.4.2 version is on Ubuntu 22 and 4.3.2 on Ubuntu 20...
>
> How can I force the installation of the newer version of ffmpeg on my server
> 20.04?
>
> I cannot upgrade the server to 22.04 since it is mission-critical..
>
The official ffmpeg site, https://ffmpeg.org, links to
https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/ on its download page for static builds
of ffmpeg which is at version 6.1. May it would work?
--
Keith
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