Question

installing ffmpeg issues Ubunutu 16.04

Posted on October 14, 2017
Ubuntu 16.04 PHP
Asked by Andrew Webb

I need to install this, but when I run the following code:

apt-get install ffmpeg

I get this (and more):

Err:1 http://lon1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 gcc-5-base amd64 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5
Could not connect to lon1.mirrors.digitalocean.com:80 (95.85.0.50), connection timed out [IP: 95.85.0.50 80]

…

Err:41 http://lon1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libcapnp-0.5.3 amd64 0.5.3-2ubuntu1 Unable to connect to lon1.mirrors.digitalocean.com:http: [IP: 2a03:b0c0:0:1::4 80] Unable to correct missing packages.

…

E: Failed to fetch http://lon1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libv/libvdpau/vdpau-driver-all_1.1.1-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb Unable to connect to lon1.mirrors.digitalocean.com:http: [IP: 2a03:b0c0:0:1::4 80]

E: Aborting install.

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KFSys

Site Moderator

• July 28, 2023

Heya

Usually, you’ll follow these steps to install ffmpeg. The steps to install FFmpeg are generally consistent across Ubuntu versions, and are typically done through the Ubuntu package manager (apt).

Here’s a general guide: