Ubuntu ffmpeg repo version how to#

By giving the path to the executable I can still call the 'real' ls. If I put a script named 'ls' in ~/bin (and run 'hash -r' to make the shell forget that it had previously found 'ls' in '/bin'), calling ls will run my script instead of '/bin/ls'.

home/me/bin:/home/me/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/binĪs you can see, PATH contains a colon separated list of the directories which are searched when a program is called. (Also I know extremely little about how Git works, so.)ĭoes anyone have insight into any of this? It would be much appreciated this is pretty fun learning how all this stuff works.ġ) The order of directories in the variable PATH decides what gets called if you enter the name of an executable without a path.

Ubuntu ffmpeg repo version how to#

I found this answer () to a similar question, saying that the string at the end is the 'Git sort hash', but I don't understand the directions given in that post on how to find out which 'Git sort hash' corresponds to which version. Why does ffmpeg -version return 'version N-92249-g8c73301'? What is that string of gobbledegook? I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be version 4.0.2. But I'd still like to know: is there a separate command I should be using that's similar to apt list but will instead show all the packages I've compiled?Ģb. And it seems as though the compiled version is the one that's automatically used when I call 'ffmpeg', because ffmpeg -version shows N-92249-g8c73301 as opposed to 3.4.4. How do I get info on the package version I compiled? (This is a general question about compiled packages.) I learned that apt and dpkg aren't showing my compiled ffmpeg because those commands are only for '.deb' packages. (Also: is it weird that this lists the newer version (4.0.2) as a snap package? But snap list doesn't show ffmpeg.And I mean, I compiled it so, it's not a snap.right?.)Ģa. But these ffmpeg package names look identical.I tried calling ffmpeg4 for kicks and got,Ĭommand 'ffmpeg4' not found, did you mean:Ĭommand 'ffmpeg' from snap ffmpeg (4.0.2) I know there's a difference between calling, for example, python vs python3. Is there a way to specify which ffmpeg version to use? (so I can see if the problems I was having were fixed in the newer version) Whereas ffmpeg -version shows the one I just compiled:įfmpeg version N-92249-g8c73301 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developersīuilt with gcc 7 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04)ġ. This was my first time ever 'compiling' a package and I'm left with a couple questions.namely, since both the old version and the new compiled version co-existing on my computer now, how do I tell which is being used?

But the Ubuntu repositories only have version 3.4.4 (the most recent is 4.0.2), so I compiled the most recent version using this guide (). Hi! :) I was having problems with how FFmpeg converts to Ogg Theora, so I figured I'd try upgrading to the most recent version of FFmpeg to see if that fixes it.