ERROR: libmp3lame >= 3.98.3 not found

Question

I am installing ffmpeg utility, but I am facing libmp3lame >= 3.98.3 not found not found error. I am able to find lame-3.99.5-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm an

Answer 1

What worked for me was building lame from source. Download lame from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/files/lame/3.99/, then extract and install:

tar -zxvf lame-3.99.5.tar.gz 
cd lame-3.99.5
./configure
make
sudo make install

Check to see where libmp3lame.a is:

locate libmp3lame.a

Its probably in /usr/local/lib.

Now when you go to configure ffmpeg, try adding that path to the end of your ./configure string. For me it made the difference. e.g.:

--extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib