setting up BBB for first time ... problem with ffmpeg install

[Shane Davis]

Using the current install documentation for setting up BBB 0.9 on Ubuntu 14.04.  I am at step 4 of the process and have an error on ffmpeg.  The script I am using is directly from the documentation.  Here are the contents:

sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core checkinstall yasm texi2html libvorbis-dev libx11-dev libvpx-dev libxfixes-dev zlib1g-dev pkg-config netcat libncurses5-dev

FFMPEG_VERSION=2.3.3

cd /usr/local/src
if [ ! -d "/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}" ]; then
  sudo wget "http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.bz2"
  sudo tar -xjf "ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.bz2"
fi

cd "ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}"
sudo ./configure --enable-version3 --enable-postproc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx
sudo make
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=ffmpeg --pkgversion="5:${FFMPEG_VERSION}" --backup=no --deldoc=yes --default

Here are the results:

reading package lists... Done

E: Unable to locate package libncurses5-dev

./install-ffmpeg.sh: line 2: $'\r': command not found

./install-ffmpeg.sh: line 4: $'\r': command not found

: no such file or director: cd: /usr/local/src

./install-ffmpeg.sh: line 15: syntax error: unexpected end of file

I am assuming the script could not find the required package in the compressed tar file from the online install sources and therefore it bombed out and did not download.  What are the suggestions and work arounds?  I have been to the source and see that there are many versions of ffmpeg out there.  

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Shane,

Can you post the output of the commands

  cat /etc/lsb-release

  uname -a

  

Also, it looks like you are using Windows to create the script and uploading it to your Ubuntu server through a file transfer program.  Windows inserts line feeds '\r' characters that Linux does not understand.

Recommend either (a) using a text editor (not notepad) that can save a file in Unix format or (b) access your Ubuntu server using PuTTY.  With PuTTY, you can edit a file on Linux (call it install-ffmpeg.sh) and then copy-and-paste in the script.

Try the above and let us know if your successful in getting it to execute.

Regards,... Fred

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[Shane Davis]

I'll run the commands below and let you know the results.  I built the file using a unix script editor like notepad ++.  I was using a PC to do this.  I did save the file as a unix shell script and transferred it via usb.  I did edit the file with vi and it looks ok.  I will remake the file on the linux box just to make sure.

Shane

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[Shane Davis]

cat /etc/lsb-release

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu

DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04

DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty

DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS"

uname -a

Linux BigBlue 4.2.0-27-generic #32~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 22 15:32:26 UTC 2016 x86_64

86_64 x86 GNU/Linux

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[Shane Davis]

The process went further this time.  I got down to the make process and apparently it cannot find the make command.

Here is the message it reports:

License: LGPL version 3 or later

Creating config.mak, config.h, and doc/config.texi...

sudo: makesudo: command not found

I then try to run the ffmpeg -version and of course it says ffmpeg: command not found

Suggestions or ideas?

  

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[Shane Davis]

Running the make command manually in the appropriate ffmpeg directory and it appears to be running now.  Must have been another script coding issue? 

Shane

[Shane Davis]

Possibly experiencing path issues.  had to run the ffmpeg command with the ./ in front of it inside its own directory to get it to run.