
This can a annoying to find on launchpad (the link may just be out of date) - but is still possible to something usable ( NOTE: Read the last part of the answer before trying for ffmpeg.):
#INSTALL FFMPEG UBUNTU 16 INSTALL#
If you are still running Ubuntu 14.04, you can install libav-tools (a fork of ffmpeg which temporarily replaced ffmpeg in Ubuntu 14.04) instead.įirst look for the packaged deb file for your version of Ubuntu (a deb for Debian/Mint etc may work for Ubuntu - RPMs are for fedora/centos/redhat/suse, other packaging formats are available for different distros). Other packages like libavcodec-extra57, which provides some additional de/encoders or any dev-versions have to be installed manually. This is from an Ubuntu 16.10 installation - packages and versions are different in other editions. For example - here my initial setup - these packages were installed after I had executed the command sudo apt install ffmpeg : ffmpeg (7:3.0.2-1ubuntu3)

When you install ffmpeg using apt, the 'additional packages' are getting installed alongside automatically, maybe something went wrong in your case.
#INSTALL FFMPEG UBUNTU 16 UPDATE#
Update addressing your comment about missing packages after an installation using apt


There is no need to download ffmpeg from launchpad. To install it open a terminal and execute this command : sudo apt install ffmpeg xenial | xenial-updates | yakkety | yakkety-updates - apt policy ffmpegĥ00 yakkety-updates/universe amd64 Packagesĥ00 yakkety-security/universe amd64 Packages Ffmpeg is available in the official Ubuntu repositories :
