Help Enabling FFMPEG on Fly.io

Questions / Help
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Hi everyone, I’ve been trying to make a discord bot that uses ffmpeg for music playback. It is remotely hosted on Fly.io and I have installed ffmpeg to my computer’s PATH, but my bot cannot access it because it is remotely hosted. Is there a way to have my bot access ffmpeg like a Heroku buildpath or something similar?

Edit: I added RUN apk add ffmpeg like a previous post suggested but this doesn’t work because I get the error “apk: not found”. Any ideas?

2

You need to find out what the base image is in your dockerfile. apk add is specifically for alpine linux, and won’t work with any other distribution.

3

Yes, this ended up being the solution for me, thanks!

FROM python:3.10.4
WORKDIR /main
COPY requirements.txt /main/
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
RUN  apt-get -y update && apt-get install -y ffmpeg 
COPY . /main
CMD python main.py