How to Install Avidemux on Ubuntu 20.04 |22.04 LTS

In this guide, we will show you how to install Avidemux in Ubuntu systems.

Avidemux is a free and open-source software application for non-linear video editing and transcoding multimedia files. The developers intend it as “a simple tool for simple video processing tasks” and to allow users “to do elementary things in a very straightforward way”. It is written in C++ and uses Qt for its graphical user interface, and FFmpeg for its multimedia functions. Starting with version 2.4, Avidemux also offers a command-line interface, and since version 2.6, the original GTK port has not been maintained and is now discontinued.

Install Avidemux on Ubuntu-APT method

Follow the steps below to get started with Avidemux :

• Update your Ubuntu system packages with running the below command:

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y

• Avidemux package is not available on Ubuntu base repository. So You can install it via importing PPA repo as follows:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xtradeb/apps -y

• Run the command below to reflect on PPA

sudo apt update -y

• Then install Avidemux as shown below:

sudo apt install avidemux* -y

Access Avidemux

• Access Avidemux through the command line by running the command

avidemux

• Also you can search on the system search bar by typing Avidemux as follows

• Avidemux will be launched as shown below

How to Remove (Uninstall) Avidemux

• Remove Avidemux with APT Remove Method:

sudo apt autoremove avidemux* --purge
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:xtradeb/apps -y

Install Avidemux -Conclusion

That’s it

Thanks.