FFmpeg/Libav installation error on Pi 3

[batman_rising]

Hi folks, I was trying to install FFMPEG on my Pi 3.

Initially I was trying to do it with "apt-get install ffmpeg" command which is given on the Wiki of Debian. But I got this (error) message for that command.

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

When I was searching for the solution, I came to know that I have to put "sudo" before "apt-get install ffmpeg". So I tried with the same but then I found this.

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

Is there any solution for this thing ? I need your guidance. Thanks a lot.

[rpdom]

In Raspbian Jessie, a version of ffmpeg is provided in the libav-tools package.

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi folks, I was trying to install FFMPEG on my Pi 3.

Initially I was trying to do it with "apt-get install ffmpeg" command which is given on the Wiki of Debian. But I got this (error) message for that command.

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

When I was searching for the solution, I came to know that I have to put "sudo" before "apt-get install ffmpeg". So I tried with the same but then I found this.

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

Is there any solution for this thing ? I need your guidance. Thanks a lot.

In Raspbian Jessie as above stated it is the libav-tools package you require, also see:

https://wiki.debian.org/ffmpeg