The latest version of FFmpeg available in the Ubuntu 20.04 repositories is 5.0 at the time of writing this article. Well supported package managers on the Mac include brew and MacPorts. Every six months, a new major version of FFmpeg is published, and the version provided in the repositories frequently lags behind. If may just be removing a folder, or it may be hunting around in /usr/local/ and /usr/bin folders for installed binaries.Įasy removal and upgrading is a strong argument for using a package manager for command line tools. It is critical to know how you installed ffmpeg in order to know how to remove it.

If you do not see this output or it does not mention Cellar, please expand your question with the output you do see. The key information in this extract is /usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/ this provides the location and that ffmpeg was installed as a HomeBrew Cellar. Look for output similar to: ffmpeg version 1.2.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developersīuilt on 11:36:01 with Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn)Ĭonfiguration: -prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/1.2.4 …

The output will include a line containing the binary's location on your Mac: ffmpeg If you are not sure how you installed ffmpeg, try running the command alone. If you installed with HomeBrew, the following Terminal.app command will perform the uninstall: brew uninstall ffmpeg

Ubuntu ffmpeg 5.0