package – Installing ffmpeg in ubuntu

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Recently I tried to install ffmpeg in my ubuntu and I received an error saying broken packages.

I already tried

Sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg

Sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade



-hp:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg

Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease

Hit:2 https://esm.ubuntu.com/infra/ubuntu jammy-infra-security InRelease

Hit:3 https://esm.ubuntu.com/infra/ubuntu jammy-infra-updates InRelease

Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease

Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease

Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

All packages are up to date.

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 ffmpeg : Depends: libavcodec58 (= 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1)

          Depends: libavdevice58 (= 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but it is not going to be installed

          Depends: libavfilter7 (= 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1)

          Depends: libavformat58 (= 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1)

          Depends: libavutil56 (= 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1 is to be installed

          Depends: libpostproc55 (= 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1 is to be installed

          Depends: libswresample3 (= 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1 is to be installed

          Depends: libswscale5 (= 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1 is to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken package
s.

I am unable to find the cause so please help me get it right

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