Unable to install php5-ffmpeg package

**alfirdaous** · January 18th, 2016

Hello everybody,

I am trying to install the php5-ffmpeg package, but I got this error:

Code:

# sudo apt-get install php5-ffmpeg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
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.
 php5-ffmpeg : Depends: phpapi-20090626
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Some helpful information:

Code:

# whereis ffmpeg
ffmpeg: /bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/X11/ffmpeg /usr/share/man/man1/ffmpeg.1.gz

Code:

# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release:        12.04
Codename:       precise

Code:

# apache2 -v
Server version: Apache/2.4.16 (Ubuntu)
Server built:

Thanks for your support

**SeijiSensei** · January 18th, 2016

You can try to install that phpapi package manually and see what happens.

**alfirdaous** · January 19th, 2016

I tried to install using command line, this is what happens, it seems some packages are on hold:

Code:

# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 libapache2-mod-php5filter php5-cgi php5-cli php5-fpm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
php5-cgi is already the newest version.
php5-cli is already the newest version.
libapache2-mod-php5 is already the newest version.
php5-fpm is already the newest version.
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.
 libapache2-mod-php5 : Conflicts: libapache2-mod-php5filter but 5.5.31+dfsg-2+deb.sury.org~precise+1 is to be installed
 libapache2-mod-php5filter : Conflicts: libapache2-mod-php5 but 5.5.31+dfsg-2+deb.sury.org~precise+1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

**SeijiSensei** · January 19th, 2016

Maybe you should consider upgrading to 14.04. That phpapi-20090626 package doesn't even exist past 12.04.

**alfirdaous** · January 20th, 2016

May be I should do that, thanks SeijiSensei for the help

**FakeOutdoorsman** · January 26th, 2016

Why do you need php5-ffmpeg? It's ancient and dead. Do you even need a wrapper for ffmpeg? Can you just use the ffmpeg binary directly in your scripts?

http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/PHP

**Sonia69** · May 4th, 2016

Originally Posted by FakeOutdoorsman

Why do you need php5-ffmpeg? It's ancient and dead. Do you even need a wrapper for ffmpeg? Can you just use the ffmpeg binary directly in your scripts?
http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/PHP

Can you just use the ffmpeg binary directly in your scripts?
Thanks !