How to install the popular media processing library FFmpeg on an Ubuntu server. The steps are straight forward and minimal.

First start by updating your package list with:

sudo apt update

Then install FFmpeg with:

sudo apt install ffmpeg

You will be prompted with a confirmation and it will begin to download and install.

Once finished, check FFmpeg is installed by calling for its version:

ffmpeg -version

This will return a load of information like this example:

ffmpeg version 4.2.1-0york0~18.04.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 7 (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1)
............
............

If it returns the FFmpeg version then you have successfully installed FFmpeg.