Hi Guys,

I tried installing kdenlive from your ppa onto Ubuntu 11.10.
It installed, but when I launch it, it crashes immediately with a fatal error.
It says there is a problem with MLT, however when I check synaptic I see that I have MLT multimedia framework C++ wrapper (runtime) version 0.74-3 installed.

Any ideas what the problem could be or how I can fix it?

Thank you,

GG

There might be a package conflict within MLT...
In your package manager, remove all Kdenlive / MLT / MLT++ packages.

Then try to install Kdenlive again. If you are using Sunab's experimental PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archive/kdenlive-svn

You should have Kdenlive 0.8.1 / MLT 0.7.5

regards

Thank you.

When I used the ppa you listed instead of the one I had found I was able to install kdenlive and launch it without a fatal error.
I couldn't get past the configuration screen though. Then I looked over at my Update Conky and noticed I had four updates. When I ran the update manager they were all from the kdenlive-svn ppa.

I installed those updates and kdenlive subsequently started normally.

I thought I should mention people are giving negative reviews in the Ubuntu Software Center because it seems the Kdenlive doesn't work in the latest version of Ubuntu right after installation. Using the Sunab package is a good idea, but the version in the software center should just work.
I'm posting about it here in case the developers did not check the Ubuntu Software Center lately.

Best regards.

I'm no dev for kdenlive bBUT I am a huge supporter of their efforts. Thanks for letting me know, I will be sure to go over and make some review/comments.

Keep up the great work DEVS!

LauraEss, all you should have to do is add sunab's experimental svn ppa. go to synaptic and do a search for kdenlive, click completely remove. make sure you see that kdenlive and mlt (or melt) packages are all being removed. then add his ppa, then just click reload, then search for kdenlive (insuring it's something like 0.8.3+git........... this click to install, it should grab it's dependencies like mlt packages and auto check those as well, click apply. You should then be working! If you have further questions just ask.

I run kubuntu 11.10 (kdenlive seems to "just work" in that)but to answer your point about synaptic I agree that it's not included by default. To install it you simply open the terminal and type

"sudo apt-get install synaptic"

You will then have synaptic available.

The other point is that after adding a new repository such as a ppa to get a new version of a program you have already installed you need to do this

"sudo apt-get update" (if the terminal did not do that automatically for you) and then

"sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" - this will tell you about the packages available for upgrade and you just type y and hit return to download and install.

HTH
ian