On my fairly old laptop running 16.04, whenever I try to use ffmpeg I get the following error:
$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libcudart.so.5.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ffmpeg used to work fine and broke at some point. I can't be sure exactly when, but it might well have been when I upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04.
Running ldd confirms that this library (the CUDA runtime library) is missing, but everything else is fine:
$ ldd /usr/bin/ffmpeg | grep libcudart
libcudart.so.5.5 => not found
I am fairly sure that the file (libcudart5.5) does not exist anywhere on my system (I have tried `find' etc), or indeed any other version of libcudart. The closest thing in the repo to what I need is libcudart7.5, a later version. But this comes along with an nvidia driver upgrade (nvidia-367) as a dependency which I have found several times now tanks the whole system (due to the graphics card being a bit out of date I think).
So basically I'm confused as to why ffmpeg is trying to link to libcudart5.5 in the first place. Surely it should be possible to run ffmpeg without needing GPU support? In fact I know it is because on another computer I use running 16.04, ldd shows no dependency on any version of libcudart and ffmpeg works just fine. The version of the ffmpeg package is the same in both cases:
$ dpkg -s ffmpeg | grep Version
Version: 7:2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
So why is it looking for it on my laptop? I have tried purging ffmpeg and reinstalling it several times with no luck. One thing that seems relevant was that I found a residual-config
entry for a package called libcudart5.5 installed on my system. I don't really know what this means, but after removing it and reinstalling ffmpeg, it didn't make a difference. It might also be relevant that at one stage (under 14.04) I had the full CUDA sdk installed, but then completely removed it and don't want to reinstall it.
I'd really appreciate any help because I'd really like to use ffmpeg on my laptop for video conversion and this has been bugging me for a while now.
Thanks!
sudo find /usr -iname libcudart.so*
? If so a simple link might make FFmpeg happier...sudo
forfind
?ldd ...
to see if there are other dependencies found.