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sorry - might be a bit of a Newbie question, but after researching via Google I am even more confused.

I have Jon Severinsson's ffmpeg PPA installed on Ubuntu 14.04 and want to replace it with mc4man's PPA. How do I purge the old PPA correctly and clean, so I can get the new one?

Is it 

sudo ppa-purge ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg

and then

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

?

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To be on safe side I removed ffmpeg completely before:

sudo apt-get --purge remove ffmpeg
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

I am not expert so maybe there is safer/better way but this worked for me. Interestingly last ffmpeg version from jon-severinsson was ffmpeg version 1.2.6-7:1.2.6-1~trusty1 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers and in mc3man repo ffmpeg version 2.6.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers.

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  • PPA to be removed: jon-severinsson ffmpeg Warning: Could not find package list for PPA: jon-severinsson ffmpeg – Alston Aug 07 '15 at 11:19
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    @曹博堯 That's fine. Those lines are just there to remove an former version of ffmpeg that you haven't downloaded. – Chris Kinniburgh Nov 28 '15 at 02:24
  • Thanks man it helped, I was getting sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found error fixed it from https://backlinkos.blogspot.com/2017/05/how-to-solve-sudo-add-apt-repository.html just adding "apt-get install software-properties-common" – Dewan Md Razib May 09 '17 at 04:44
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Today I found another PPA providing Jon Severinsson's ffmpeg package: https://launchpad.net/~fnu/+archive/ubuntu/main-fnu. Unlike the mc3man/trusty-media PPA it provides ffmpeg version 1.2.6-7:1.2.6-1~trusty1. It seems to be the same package contained in the old jon-severinsson/ffmpeg PPA.

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  • You can also use this package I created : https://github.com/razzbee/ffmpeg_installer , it works just fine – Big Zak Oct 02 '16 at 05:04