How to install Avidemux in Ubuntu

What is Avidemux? It is an open source video editor. It is designed to perform simple video editing tasks such as transcoding, cropping and filtering. Since this program is written in C++ programming language, it runs successfully not only on the Linux medium operating system, but also on Windows, BSD and even MacOS. The program is interesting because it includes support for many different formats(VI, DVD, MPEG, MP4 and ASF). To encode files, avidemux uses the multimedia library installed on the system - ffmpeg. Often users mistake avidemux for a primitive editor, but this is a deceptive first impression. The editor can really do a lot, which is only worth the ability to impose filters on certain frames of the video recording and expand them. In this tutorial, let's take a look at how to install Avidemux in the Ubuntu distribution.

How to install Avidemux in Ubuntu?

The main problem during the installation of Avidemux is related to the fact that the program is not accessible from the repository. For unknown reasons, the developers have removed packages of graphical versions of the program from the repositories. So we will have to use PPA.

So the first thing we do is add the PPA and update the package lists:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/avidemux1
$ sudo apt update

Next we install Avidemux in Ubuntu 20.04:

$ sudo apt install avidemux2.7-qt5

That's it - the program is installed. Now you can run it from the main menu or from the terminal:

$ avidemux2.7_qt5

Portable version of Avidemux

It is good to see that the program has a portable version. It can be found on the FossHub website. At the moment, the latest version is available there. You only need to download the AppImage file from the site:

After that you need to assign execution rights:

$ chmod ugo+x ~/Загрузки/avidemux_2.7.6.appImage

Now you can run the program from the terminal or by double-clicking from the file manager.

How to uninstall Avidemux

It happens that the program immediately did not like or after a while became useless and unnecessary. In this case, you can simply uninstall it. To do this, you need to perform:

$ sudo apt purge avidemux2.7-qt5

You can also delete the PPA repository:

$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/avidemux1

This is the end of this instruction.