ffmpeg upgrade fails due to nettle no longer compatible with highSierra I use HighSierra 10.13.6 on my Mac.
When trying to upgrade youtube-dl, the process also tries to update ffmpeg which fails because of a library called &quot;nettle&quot;. As a result of this, ffmpeg was removed from my macOS and I cannot install it again.
Is this library important to &quot;normal&quot; use of ffmpeg? Where normal means converting downloaded videos from YouTube and/or between formats such as mp4, mp3.
Is there a way to pass options to homebrew to tell not to use this nettle library?
If not possible, is there a way to tell homebrew that for ffmpeg library use a locally built nettle installation directory?
As other answers have noted, Homebrew no longer supports High Sierra.
While I suspect you will eventually want to switch to MacPorts, you could also download a static build of ffmpeg from https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/ and drop it in /usr/local/bin. These self-contained &quot;static&quot; binaries include all of the library code they need to run.