How to install avconv on Ubuntu 18.04.5 Bionic

Question

I want to use avconv for audio related operations on my Ubuntu Bionic 18.04.5 system, but it's not getting installed as a part of the following packages.

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg:i386
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

I still get..

avconv: command not found

Answer 1

So I tried creating a soft link.

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/avconv

Now If I run

$avconv

ffmpeg version 3.4.8-0ubuntu0.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers......