[FFmpeg-user] stuck on ffmpeg version 2.8.15

[Reindl Harald]

Am 06.05.19 um 22:13 schrieb Gabriella Han:
> I was simply running the command again to show that it was stating that
> 2.8.15 is the newest version. I know it is already installed. I don’t
> appreciate being told what I do and do not understand. I will seek help
> elsewhere. Thank you.

fact is that "It still downloads ffmpeg version 2.8.15 even after I
removed ffmpeg and installed with the instructions in the Compilation
Guide" is bullshit and shows what you understand or not

when build from source apt/dnf/yum are out of game at all

> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 4:10 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Am 06.05.19 um 22:07 schrieb Gabriella Han:
>>> Thanks. It still downloads ffmpeg version 2.8.15 even after I removed
>>> ffmpeg and installed with the instructions in the Compilation Guide.
>> When I
>>> try to run sudo apt-get install ffmpeg again, I get:
>>
>> you even don't understand what the compilation guideline is talking
>> about, please seek some Ubuntu mailing list
>>
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> ffmpeg is already the newest version (7:2.8.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1).
>>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
>>> required:
>>>   apt-clone archdetect-deb containerd dmeventd dmraid dpkg-repack
>>>   gir1.2-timezonemap-1.0 gir1.2-xkl-1.0 grub-common kpartx kpartx-boot
>>>   libappstream3 libdbusmenu-gtk4 libdebian-installer4
>>> libdevmapper-event1.02.1
>>>   libdmraid1.0.0.rc16 liblockfile-bin liblockfile1 liblvm2app2.2
>>>   liblvm2cmd2.02 libmircommon5 libparted-fs-resize0 libqmi-glib1
>> libqpdf17
>>>   libreadline5 lockfile-progs lvm2 os-prober pmount python3-icu
>> python3-pam
>>>   rdate runc snapd-login-service ubiquity-casper ubiquity-ubuntu-artwork
>>>   ubuntu-core-launcher
>>> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>>>
>>> This is odd because 2.8.15 is not the newest version to my understanding.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 7:54 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 06.05.19 um 21:52 schrieb Gabriella Han:
>>>>> That's great. Then could you provide me with instructions to install a
>>>>> recent working version of ffmpeg with Ubuntu 16.04? I was only
>> installing
>>>>> an outdated distribution because I could not find such instructions on
>>>> the
>>>>> official ffmpeg website.
>>>>
>>>> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 7:45 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 06.05.19 um 21:41 schrieb Gabriella Han:
>>>>>>> If this is not the right mailing list, which would be a better one to
>>>>>>> contact?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> a mailing list or forum of your distribution?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> this is about UPSTREAM ffmpeg with a recent, working binary or how to
>>>>>> compile one from soruce and not about random third party binarties of
>>>>>> random outdated distributions