Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, FF Multi Converter is an open-source conversion appplication, which allows the users to convert audio, video, image and document files to different formats. Using ffmpeg for audio/video files, unoconv for document files and ImageMagick for image file conversions, it has support for the following file formats: aac, ac3, afc, aiff, amr, asf, au, avi, dvd, flac, flv, mka, mkv, mmf, mov, mp3, mp4, mpg, ogg, ogv, psp, rm, spx, vob, wav, webm, wma, bmp, cgm, DPX, EMF, EPS, FPX, GIF, JBIG, jng, jpeg, MrSID, p7, pdf, picon, png, ppm, psd, rad, tga, tif, webp, xpm, and also we can convert documents in formats doc, odt, pdf, html, ppt, txt, sdw, xls, rtf. With a simple and intuitive UI, the users can add the files inside the software via drag and drop.
The latest version available is FF Multi Converter 1.6, which has been released a while ago.
In this article I will show you how to install FF Multi Converter 1.6 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems.
Because it is available via PPA, installing FF Multi Converter 1.6 on Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the ffmulticonverter package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ffmulticonverter/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ffmulticonverter
Optional, to remove ffmulticonverter, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove ffmulticonverter