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I am not an expect with linux and new to rails but trying i am trying to have my user allowed to upload video and to view them. Now I have found this gem for ruby on rails https://github.com/owahab/paperclip-ffmpeg which seem to use paperclip and the ffmpeg software to upload video on my server. However in the documentation it state you must install ffmpeg and i am not sure how. I use ubuntu 12.04 and not sure how to install it.

Jseb
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Not a question for SO. You should ideally ask such questions on superuser. However to install ffmpeg just do 

 sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
av501
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Ubuntu repository normally have old builds for ffmpeg and will not contain some current features. It's better practice to download ffmpeg from source and build it.

For ubuntu you can follow this process for build and install:

extract the tar file and go inside ffmpeg folder execute following commands

$ ./configure
$ make -j 10
$ sudo make install

If you wish to configure ffmpeg with some option you can provide parameters like

./configure --enable-libx264 --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-gpl --enable-version3
Satyam Naolekar
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FFMPEG installation Guide - Official for Linux , Windows , MacOS and other platforms. (Includes guide for developers )

Abdullah Farweez
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