Installing ClipBucket but installation cannot find ffmpeg
I am running the installation of ClipBucket and I have installed ffmpeg. I rerun the installation to refresh the requirements and it continues to show:
Unable to find ffmpeg
If I do a find of ffmpeg, I find it though:
:~$ sudo find / -type f -name "ffmpeg"
/opt/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg
I am using Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS with Plesk. Do I need to do something with Plesk for this to be seen by the web page?
I am not a pro when it comes to Ubuntu so I'm not sure where to look not or what to do.
Solution 1:
My suspicion is that you have installed FFmpeg in a location that ClipBucket does not look. I do not know ClipBucket at all but there are instructions here for adding in a non-standard $PATH.
If this does not work you need to add the location of FFmpeg to your $PATH, and you should really do this anyway on a well setup system. There are 2 options:
1. Change the local $PATH:
Add the following to your ~/.profile file:
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/ffmpeg/bin
Then run the following command:
source ~/.profile
But this will only have effect for an individual user, you may very well need to make a system change to affect all users:
2. Change the system $PATH:
Add the following to your /etc/environment file:
:/opt/ffmpeg/bin
Add this to the end of the existing $PATH statement so that the whole line will look something like this:
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/opt/ffmpeg/bin"
You will need to use sudo and your favorite editor to edit this file and don't forget to log out and back in for this to take effect.
3. Testing:
I tested these changes on my own system, the results can be seen with either technique by using the following command:
andrew@corinth:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/opt/ffmpeg/bin
andrew@corinth:~
And you can see that now your $PATH is extended and your application should be able to see FFmpeg...
Further Reading:
- ClipBucket Docs: FFMpeg