Installing ffmpeg in Dockerfile

Questions
1

Hi!

All day long I can’t install ffmpeg for n8n. Error: Command failed: ffmpeg -version /bin/sh: ffmpeg: not found

My files:

FROM docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n:1.95.3

USER root

RUN apk add --no-cache ffmpeg

RUN chown -R node:node /data

USER node

ENV N8N_DISABLE_PRODUCTION_MAIN_PROCESS=false
ENV N8N_ENFORCE_SETTINGS_FILE_PERMISSIONS=true
ENV N8N_RUNNERS_ENABLED=true
ENV DB_TYPE=sqlite
ENV DB_SQLITE_DATABASE=/data/database.sqlite
ENV N8N_USER_FOLDER=/data

CMD ["n8n", "start"]


# amvera.yml
version: null
meta:
  environment: docker
  toolchain:
    name: docker
    version: latest
build:
  dockerfile: Dockerfile
  skip: false 
run:
  persistenceMount: /data
  containerPort: 5678

Configuration settings on the screenshot

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what do I need to change to make ffmpeg work?

2

I may assume that the user node doesn’t have permission to run the ffmpeg command, as it was installed as root user

3

Check NCA Toolkit, install as docker and they have tutorials how to use ith with N8N