Richard Legault
Richard Legault

Reputation: 473

brew install FFmpeg, FFmpeg command not found on Mac v10.15.5

After installing FFmpeg with brew the command ffmpeg is still not found. I had to update the ~/.zshrc to include the cellar path to the FFmpeg install. Does anyone have an explanation for why this was necessary, is there an error in the brew install script for Mac OS 10.15.5.

Here is what my .zshrc now looks like:

userName@ComputerName-MacBook-Pro ~ % cat ~/.zshrc 
export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/4.3.1/bin:$PATH"

Upvotes: 2

Views: 12958

Answers (1)

Richard Legault
Richard Legault

Reputation: 473

After the feedback from Mark I did a little more digging and am now more confused as to why the link for ffmpeg is not working

% ls -al /usr/local/bin
  /usr/local/bin -> /opt/local/bin
% ls -al /opt/local/bin/ffmpeg
  /opt/local/bin/ffmpeg -> ../Cellar/ffmpeg/4.3.1/bin/ffmpeg
% ls -al /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
  /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -> ../Cellar/ffmpeg/4.3.1/bin/ffmpeg
% ls -al /usr/local
  Cellar (exists)
  bin -> /opt/local/bin

% ffmpeg
zsh command not found


echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin

My Solution

ln -s /usr/local/Cellar /opt/local

% which ffmpeg
   /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

Upvotes: 2

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