how to remove ffmpeg ? and install again

I want to remove ffmpeg. Typed to terminal

    ..........$ rm ffmpeg
    rm: ffmpeg: is a directory
    ..........$ ffmpeg
    ffmpeg version 2.1.git Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jan 28 2014 01:43:39 with Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79)     (based on LLVM 3.3svn)
  configuration: 
  libavutil      52. 63.100 / 52. 63.100
  libavcodec     55. 49.100 / 55. 49.100
  libavformat    55. 26.100 / 55. 26.100
  libavdevice    55.  5.102 / 55.  5.102
  libavfilter     4.  1.101 /  4.  1.101
  libswscale      2.  5.101 /  2.  5.101
  libswresample   0. 17.104 /  0. 17.104
  Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
  usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options]     outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'

How do I remove and install it again?

I finally got this

.........$ which ffmpeg
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

Solution 1:

Removal

If you installed with HomeBrew, the following Terminal.app command will perform the uninstall:

brew uninstall ffmpeg

If you are not sure how you installed ffmpeg, try running the command alone. The output will include a line containing the binary's location on your Mac:

ffmpeg

Look for output similar to:

ffmpeg version 1.2.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Nov 21 2013 11:36:01 with Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/1.2.4 …

The key information in this extract is /usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/; this provides the location and that ffmpeg was installed as a HomeBrew Cellar.

If you do not see this output or it does not mention Cellar, please expand your question with the output you do see.

Alternative Installations

It is critical to know how you installed ffmpeg in order to know how to remove it. If may just be removing a folder, or it may be hunting around in /usr/local/ and /usr/bin folders for installed binaries.

Easy removal and upgrading is a strong argument for using a package manager for command line tools. Well supported package managers on the Mac include brew and MacPorts.