Hi, all!

I'm new to Linux and am running Ubuntu Studio. I'm having issues trying to figure out how to install this new release of Kdenlive. Any assistance you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,

I don't know about Ubuntu or Ubuntu Studio but it is generally a good idea for even more advanced users of Linux to stick with the packages provided by their distros and version respectively.

Have you got kdenlive installed at the moment? If so, which version is it and which version are you after?

More info please

The fresh 16.04 release of Ubuntu Studio should come with a fairly recent Kdenlive, probably 15.12.x. If you have an older Studio, upgrades will probably difficult or not possible. It may be possible to upgrade Kdenlive and some important sidekicks, such as MLT, to 16.04.0 by using the ppa mentioned below; however be warned that I didn't try as I'm on Kubuntu and compiling directly from sources.

Toad, with all due respect, if I would have followed your advice over the past year, I wouldn't have had a working Kdenlive, MLT, ffmpeg, and frei0r installation or alternatively a totally outdated "stable", yet buggy version that either rendered garbled frames, crashed during rendering, or had a terrible memory leak eating memory beyond any limits, so projects couldn't be rendered in the end. Yeah, three cheers to that kind of "stable" and "long term support". Search this forum, or canonical's such as launchpad, or ... and you'll find large amounts of users reporting all kind of problems with distro stock Kdenlive packages.

For good reason, the Kdenlive project has set up these three ppa's for *ubuntu-based installations: https://kdenlive.org/node/9460

The distribution stock packages were for some time mostly unusable across multiple distro families, so we had and still have a lot of users complaining here in the Kdenlive forum -- when it wasn't the fault of the Kdenlive project but of the packagers throwing incompatible MLT and ffmpeg packages together with Kdenlive. Sometimes even basic dependencies are missing, such as to frei0r and the Breeze icon set. The Kdenlive devs worked around some of these problems that weren't their faults, but in the end this isn't how this is supposed to work.

TheDiveO wrote:Toad, with all due respect, if I would have followed your advice over the past year, I wouldn't have had a working Kdenlive, MLT, ffmpeg, and frei0r installation or alternatively a totally outdated "stable", yet buggy version that either rendered garbled frames, crashed during rendering, or had a terrible memory leak eating memory beyond any limits, so projects couldn't be rendered in the end. Yeah, three cheers to that kind of "stable" and "long term support". Search this forum, or canonical's such as launchpad, or ... and you'll find large amounts of users reporting all kind of problems with distro stock Kdenlive packages.

Glad you didn't and you've got a working version

As I stated, I don't use Ubuntu (Studio) and am happy that a more qualified forum member, i.e. you, came up with a better answer. The only valid point left of my post is that we need more info

Cheers!