What is the difference of installing ffmpeg through snap and apt-get?

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What is the difference of installing ffmpeg through snap and apt-get?

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I was not able to view built-in videos on twitter and other websites so I wanted to install ffmpeg. I ran the command snap install ffmpeg and it didn't work but after running the command sudo apt-get install ffmpeg it installed too many files and it worked. What is the difference here?

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Below distinction will not explain the issues you experienced installing ffmpeg.

Snaps

From Wikipedia: "Snap (package manager)":

Snaps are self-contained applications running in a sandbox with mediated access to the host system.

The snaps are furthermore mounted as loopback filesystems.

Packages installed from Ubuntu repositories

Packages installed via aptitude (e.g. apt-get install command) can require and result in further dependencies being separately installed.

See this technical comparison for a detailed explanation.

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