Snap install ffmpeg issues

Hi there

It seems snap install (with or without --edge) brings old version.

And when trying to run ffmpeg, it gives errors as below.

This did not change even after apt update, apt upgrade (and reinstall of snap).

– root@33:~# snap version

snap 2.66.1+24.04 snapd 2.66.1+24.04 series 16 ubuntu 24.04 kernel 6.8.0-51-generic

root@33:~# snap install ffmpeg --edge

2024-12-20T22:35:00Z INFO Waiting for automatic snapd restart…

ffmpeg (edge) n4.4.4-89-g25841e4f90 from Snapcrafters✪ installed

root@33:~# ffmpeg

mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/run/user/0’: Permission denied

realpath: ‘’: No such file or directory

realpath: ‘’: No such file or directory

realpath: ‘’: No such file or directory

ffmpeg version n4.4.4-89-g25841e4f90 Copyright (c) 2000-2023 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 9 (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.2)


root@33:~# cat /etc/os-release

PRETTY_NAME=“Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS”

NAME=“Ubuntu”

VERSION_ID=“24.04”

VERSION=“24.04.1 LTS (Noble Numbat)”

VERSION_CODENAME=noble


Can you please suggest how to get this all resolved?

just stop running snaps as root and you will be fine …

Yes, we’ve not updated the ffmpeg yet in snap. Please use the deb version for now.