

HandBrake is one of the popular Linux software and it should be available in the official repositories of almost all Linux distributions.

Installing HandBrake on other Linux distributions If you want command line, you can always use ffmpeg that is more powerful and HandBrake uses it underneath anyways.

Quite honestly, HandBrake should be used as a GUI application. If you want to install the CLI version of Handbrake, simply use this command: sudo apt install handbrake-cli It will help you to remove PPA, if you ever need to uninstall HandBrake installed via the PPA. Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases It’s better to uninstall any existing version of HandBrake beforehand. If you want to install the latest version of HandBrake on Ubuntu and other Ubuntu-based distributions, you can use its official PPA. However, the software center might feature the older version. You can also use terminal for installing HandBrake with apt or apt-get command: sudo apt-get install handbrake
