How to install ffmpeg on Ubuntu 14.04 (32-bit)?

Question

When I try:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

I get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package ffmpeg is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'ffmpeg' has no installation candidate

And I don't know how to install ppa packages.

Solution

Try these running these commands on your system to install ffmpeg

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
tar xjvf ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
cd ffmpeg
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure \
  --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" \
  --extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include" \
  --extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib" \
  --bindir="$HOME/bin" \
  --extra-libs="-ldl" \
  --enable-gpl \
  --enable-libass \
  --enable-libfdk-aac \
  --enable-libfreetype \
  --enable-libmp3lame \
  --enable-libopus \
  --enable-libtheora \
  --enable-libvorbis \
  --enable-libvpx \
  --enable-libx264 \
  --enable-nonfree \
  --enable-x11grab
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" make
make install
make distclean
hash -r

for more details see this installation guide

Comments

[Chinmaya B]

this means there is nothing like ffmpeg in ubuntu repository you have to download it and install it manually from terminal

[Rinzwind]

see askubuntu.com/questions/432542/… (aconv is the new ffmpeg ;) )

[Chinmaya B]

@Rinzwind - I answered what he asked :D

[user306837]

Your answer is correct. I am now using ffmpeg.

[Anirudh]

I am unable to install ffmpeg until i removed this --enable-x11grab