In general, there are two ways of installing Avidemux:

1. Installing a compiled package for your operating system see the download page for links to binary packages for various Linux distributions, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
2. Compiling the source code yourself either from the official release, using your operating system source package manager (e.g. in Gentoo Linux or BSD) or from the latest version in the SVN Repository.

Compiling Avidemux – from the official tarballs or SVN

• Debian install
• Ubuntu install

• Compile SpiderMonkey engine
• Compiling x264
• Compile Xvid from CVS

• Problems with compiling
• Warnings & common pitfalls