Install FFmpeg 2.7.1 “Nash” on Ubuntu and Derivatives. Terminal commands to install FFmpeg 2.7.1 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Linux Mint and derivatives. FFmpeg multimedia framework is used to play, stream and convert audio and video files – the FFmpeg tool is suitable to convert multimedia files.
The latest FFmpeg version (FFmpeg 2.7.1 “Nash”) includes libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample which can be used by applications. As well as ffmpeg, ffserver, ffplay and ffprobe which can be used by end users for transcoding, streaming and playing.
Here’s how to install FFmpeg 2.7.1 “Nash” on Ubuntu Systems:
Open Terminal and run the following commands to install FFmpeg 2.7.1 “Nash” on Ubuntu Systems:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg-real
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg
If you wish to remove and uninstall the FFmpeg 2.7.1 “Nash” from Ubuntu, run the following command:
$ sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg
$ sudo rm /opt/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg
Linux Packages
- Debian packages for Oldstable, Stable, Testing, Unstable (amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc)
- Ubuntu – Ubuntu Multimedia for Trusty PPA. Provides static binaries from most recent release branch.
- Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages (i386, x86_64)