I wanted to use the avconv program on an Ubuntu 14.04 box, but it turned out that it was not available on this particular machine:
Oftentimes, the name of the package supplying a command is the name of the command. Thus I tried
Clicking on Search told me that I had to install the libav-tools package:
ub$ avconv -i v.mkv -vcodec libx264 -acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 v.mp4 avconv: command not found
Oftentimes, the name of the package supplying a command is the name of the command. Thus I tried
ub$ sudo apt-get install avconv ... E: Unable to locate package avconv
So how to find out the name of the package that would provide avconv? Google threw up a ton of suggestions but the most simple solution turned out to just query a database suppled by Ubuntu :
Clicking on Search told me that I had to install the libav-tools package:
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