Install ffmpeg on elastic beanstalk using ebextensions config

Question

I\'m attempting to install an up to date version of ffmpeg on an elastic beanstalk instance on amazon servers. I\'ve created my config file and added these container_command

Answer 1

Check cloud-init logs for messages. On a Linux instance, that would be:

grep "03-ffmpeg" /var/log/eb-cfn-init.log

Also, you can log to another file to make errors easier to find:

command: ln -s /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg >> /var/log/my-init.log