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+After this, ffmpeg should be all compiled and built, and should be in your ~/bin directory.
+====Step 5 (Optional)====
+===Set up a path variable to ~/bin===
+If you want to run your new version of ffmpeg from anywhere, you may need to add ~/bin to your $PATH system variable. First, check to see if your ~/bin directory is listed in your $PATH.  Do this by typing the following:
+<cli>
+echo $PATH
+</cli>
+Which will return something like this:
+<cli>
+/home/shawn/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr.sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
+</cli>
+If you don't see "/home/username/bin" listed, we need to add it to our $PATH.  This can be done by editing the ~/.profile file, and adding the following lines to the bottom.
+<code>
+if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
+    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
+fi
+</code>
+This will check the home directory on login, and if it finds a ~/bin folder, it will add it to the path.  After adding this line, save the ~/.profile and restart your shell.  After this, we should be able to call the script from anywhere.  So, let's test it.  Run the following command from any directory.
+<cli>
+ffmpeg
+</cli>
+The ffmpeg run dialog should show up, and everything should be good to go!

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