
When everything’s done successfully, verify via ffmpeg -version command. NOTE: This command may remove some apps on your system due to package conflict! DO CHECK the terminal output before typing ‘ y‘ to confirm installation!
UBUNTU FFMPEG UPDATE INSTALL
If you’re running Ubuntu 18.04 or Ubuntu 16.04, you need to manually refresh the system package cache by running command: sudo apt update 3.) Upgrade FFmpeg to 5.0:įinally, run the command below to install all the available updates including FFmpeg 5: sudo apt full-upgrade Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg5Īlso add the FFmpeg4 PPA which contains the dependency libraries: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 When it opens, run command to add the PPA: 1.) Add the PPAsįirstly, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open a terminal window. The PPA still works, and if you find it’s useful you may help by making donations (see the previous link).

Though the updates is suspend due to lack of donations.

Rob Savoury has built the FFmpeg 5.0 packages into PPA for all the current Ubuntu LTS releases. IMPORTANT: Upgrading FFmpeg is not recommended for beginners! It may conflict with other packages in your system.
UBUNTU FFMPEG UPDATE HOW TO
Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04 and/or Ubuntu 16.04 via PPA.įFmpeg 5.0, codename “Lorentz”, is a new major release that features:

The popular FFmpeg multi-media library released version 5.0 recently.
