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Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS and trying to install ffmpeg.

$ sudo apt install ffmpeg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
ffmpeg is already the newest version (7:4.1.3-0york1~16.04).
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 cuda-libraries-dev-10-1 : Depends: libcublas-dev (>= 10.2.1.243) but it is not going to be installed
 cuda-samples-10-1 : Depends: libcublas-dev (>= 10.2.1.243) but it is not going to be installed
 cuda-visual-tools-10-1 : Depends: libcublas-dev (>= 10.2.1.243) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

It says ffmpeg is already the newest version, which it is not (V1.4 is the most current one afaik). I tried checking ffmpeg version:

$ ffmpeg -version
The program 'ffmpeg' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install ffmpeg

Note: I looked over other posts and added this apt repo: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4

I was able to install ffmpeg using pip3 and that installed to /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/ffmpeg.

Can anyone help with this problem?

Santino
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    A couple of things: 1. Did you run `sudo apt-get -f install` as it's telling you to do? 2. The phrase "newest version" in the output *doesn't* stand for the absolutely newest version of the application, but the newest version *from the repositories you currently have added to your system*. – pomsky Sep 07 '19 at 08:44
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    Possible duplicate of [The following packages have unmet dependencies!](https://askubuntu.com/questions/563178/the-following-packages-have-unmet-dependencies) – Kristopher Ives Sep 07 '19 at 08:49
  • I did run that, but that throws a weird error: Preparing to unpack .../libcublas-dev Unpacking libcublas-dev (10.2.1.243-1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libcublas-dev_10.2.1.243-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcublas_static.a', which is also in package nvidia-cuda-dev 7.5.18-0ubuntu1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libcublas-dev_10.2.1.243-1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) – Santino Sep 07 '19 at 08:54

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You can try to build this from sources

$ tar xjf ffmpeg-4.2.1.tar.bz2
$ cd ffmpeg-4.2.1

And use instructions from INSTALL.md file:

  1. Type ./configure to create the configuration. A list of configure options is printed by running configure --help.

    configure can be launched from a directory different from the FFmpeg sources to build the objects out of tree. To do this, use an absolute path when launching configure, e.g. /ffmpegdir/ffmpeg/configure.

  2. Then type make to build FFmpeg. GNU Make 3.81 or later is required.

  3. Type make install to install all binaries and libraries you built.

Andrey Prokopenko
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