Add blurb about FFMPEG and Ubuntu

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 A package repository is available at https://repo.jellyfin.org.

+NOTE: Ubuntu users may find that the `ffmpeg` dependency package is not present in their release or is simply a rebranded `libav` which is not directly compatible. Please [obtain the ffmpeg package directly from the FFMPEG site](https://ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-linux) to use Jellyfin on Ubuntu.
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 #### Clean install

 0. Install the `dotnet-runtime-2.2` package via [Microsoft's repositories](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/2.2).