Daniel Llewellyn said:
> ?ffmpeg is in universe. This repository should be enabled by default unless you
> have a minimal installation provided by some vps/cloud providers.
Thank you, Daniel.
The installation was done by Dell. My web searches have revealed that
I am not the only one with this problem. It appears that ffmpeg was
left out of Ubuntu 14.04 for reasons unknown.
> Installing ffmpeg from source won't satisfy apt dependencies,
Whyever not? That appears to be an entirely unreasonable restriction.
> so you either need to get the universe repo enabled and install
> ffmpeg through apt
How do I enable the universe repo?
> or you need to compile silentcast yourself.
I don't think the source code is available, but will investigate.
I obtained a deb file for ffmpeg, moved it to /var/cache/apt/archives/
and tried to install from there (a procedure that has worked for
something else), but got this:
pra@pra-Inspiron-15-3552:~/software$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package ffmpeg is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'ffmpeg' has no installation candidate
So that doesn't work. There are other ways to get an animated gif of a
desktop.
Peter Alefounder.
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