Package 'libav-tools' is not installed, so not removedĠ upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Package 'ffmpeg' is not installed, so not removed home/andrew/OpenCV/opencv-2.4.5/3rdparty/ffmpeg home/andrew/vlc-2.1.0/contrib/src/ffmpeg Here's the output of some commands that might help: $ sudo find / -name 'ffmpeg' -type d With my current version, I get: Unrecognized option 'pattern_type'įailed to set value 'glob' for option 'pattern_type' The reason I want to uninstall it is so that I can reinstall a newer version that supports the pattern-type option. I've tried using ffmpeg to convert a short. I'm using the ffmpeg version, not the libav one: $ ffmpegįfmpeg version 0.11.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers Step 1: Open a terminal with su access and enter the command as shown below. Thing is, even after this, ffmpeg is still useable: $ ffmpeg -versionĬonfiguration: -enable-gpl -enable-libfaac -enable-libmp3lame -enable-libopencore-amrnb -enable-libopencore-amrwb -enable-libtheora -enable-libvorbis -enable-libx264 -enable-libxvid -enable-nonfree -enable-postproc -enable-version3 -enable-x11grab Here is the tutorial to learn how to uninstall ffmpeg with apt-get command. But I've already done uninstalling through apt using sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg libav. The problem is, I can't remember what method I used to install it. Please use avconv instead.I need help uninstall ffmpeg. This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a future release. When I issue the following command: $ffmpeg -version That, I suppose, would mean that it was not the source from which ffmpeg was (if) compiled. When I changed to the directory, I found ffmpeg and ffmpeg1, however 'sudo make uninstall' didn't work for both the places and threw an error 'make: * No rule to make target `uninstall'. I tried to find ffmpeg directory by issuing the following command: $ find / -name 'ffmpeg' -type d I have tried the followin: $ sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg I had installed ffmpeg a while ago (so don't clearly remember whether it was from source or repo).

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