OpenShot Video Editor

Installation issue

Asked by Devlin7

Hi Jonathan,

I attempted to install Openshot on 32bit Ubutntu Karmic Koala. This is a new install and the only other app installed is kdenlive.
I followed your website instructions below.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonoomph/openshot-edge/ubuntu karmic maindeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonoomph/openshot-edge/ubuntu karmic main
Signing key: 1024R/EDFBD1F9

I got the same error as this reviewer http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/introducing-openshot
    --------------------------------
       OpenShot (version 0.9.52)
    --------------------------------
    *** ERROR: MLT Python bindings failed to import ***
    *** ERROR: MLT Python bindings failed to import ***
    Exception in thread Thread-1:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 525, in __bootstrap_innerself.run()
      File "/usr/share/openshot/classes/thumbnail.py", line 174, in run mlt.Factory().init()
    NameError: global name 'mlt' is not defined

    -------------------------------------------------------
    Error: OpenShot has not been installed in the Python path.
    (Both the site-packages and /usr/share/openshot folders were checked)

    Use the following command to install OpenShot:
      $ sudo python setup.py install

entering sudo python setup.py results in a "no such file or directory".

 I looked for the mlt files in the python2.6 directory but there isn't even a site-packages directory.

Please note I am NOT complaining merely posting feedback on the install process, if this helps?
Regards

Graeme

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Andy Finch (fincha) said : 		#1

How did you install Kdenlive? If it is from a PPA then I don't think the two can work together, as the PPA install of Kdenlive installs it's own versions of MLT etc, whereas the Openshot PPA uses the versions in the Ubuntu repository.

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Dave Phillips (dave-linux-sound) said : 		#2

You might want to read this article:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/introducing-openshot

I had the same problems under 9.04 and solved them. Here's the relevant info from the article:

"After some research I found that the straightforward sudo make install was not enough to correctly install the MLT software. I discovered that MLT's Makefile for the language bindings includes a directive for installation, but there are no installation targets. Thus, the modules get built but are not installed.

Following advice from OpenShot developer Jonathan Thomas I manually copied three files from ~/src/mlt/src/swig/python to the /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages directory. The needed files are the _mlt.so shared library, the mlt.py Python module, and the mlt_wrap.o object file. I ran the openshot command again, and again the program produced the same error message and failed to open.

At this point I suspected the Python PATH so I ran this command :

    echo $PYTHONPATH

The result was an empty string, proving that the PYTHONPATH had not been defined in my Ubuntu Jaunty Python environment. Python itself is definitely correctly installed, but without a defined PYTHONPATH its modules would be unavailable to OpenShot. I defined that path with this command :

    export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/

Once again I tried to start OpenShot, and this time the program opened in all its glory (Figure 1). At last I could meet and greet OpenShot."

Best,

dp

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