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I seem to be having issues installing ffmpeg on my server machine, I have tried multiple resources online including adding different PPA's but none of them seem to have worked so I have since removed them. Basically, when I do the command sudo apt-get install ffmpeg, it gives me the error message of E: Package 'ffmpeg' has no installation candidate. Any assistance would be wonderful, thank you so much! Note: I looked at other questions regarding this, and none of them seem to have this issue on this version of ubuntu

ShadowStriker
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    the performance if you compile ffmpeg is way better than the performance on ffmpeg of the repos, why you don't try it ? https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu – abaddon s Dec 25 '18 at 03:27
  • ffmpeg is in the universe repository. You need to enable the universe repository on your system to install ffmpeg. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/1081243/why-do-i-need-to-enable-universe-repo-in-18-04-isnt-it-default-enabled – DK Bose Dec 25 '18 at 03:42

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DK Bose's comment works on Ubuntu 18.04.2 server.

sudo add-apt-repository universe && sudo apt upgrade

Then sudo apt install ffmpeg will succeed.

Camille Goudeseune
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