Recommended way to install Kdenlive on Ubuntu 18.04

Question

If you go to the kdenlive download page: https://kdenlive.org/en/download/

Under

Ubuntu | LinuxMint | Elementary

It reads:

It is recommended to download the AppImage version until the release of Ubuntu 18.04.

Ubuntu 18.04 has been released. What is the best way to get it installed?

Solution

The preferred way to install any application in Ubuntu is to use Official Ubuntu repositories. You can use search for any package on http://packages.ubuntu.com .

There is kdenlive version 17.12.3-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS repository (see this page for details).

To install you can run

sudo apt-get install kdenlive

This command will download about 200 MB of packages and will use about 450 MB disk space.

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For 18.04 LTS there is MultiMedia PPA with kdenlive version 18.04.1+git201805021218~ubuntu18.04.1. You can add this repository and install package by:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:torik-habib/bionic
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kdenlive

If you really need a bleeding-edge version of kdenlive on 18.04 LTS you can choose AppImage or Flatpak (you pay with disk space):

• AppImage (20.12.1c, ~0.25GB downloads)

  wget https://files.kde.org/kdenlive/release/kdenlive-20.12.1c-x86_64.appimage
  chmod +x kdenlive-20.12.1c-x86_64.appimage
  ./kdenlive-20.12.1c-x86_64.appimage
  

• FlatPak (21.08.2, ~0.5GB downloads)

  sudo apt install flatpak
  
  flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
  flatpak install --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.kde.kdenlive.flatpakref
  

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For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (and newer) you can use PPA:

• “Kdenlive” team PPA (21.08.0, ~0.1GB downloads on non-Qt system):

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kdenlive/kdenlive-stable
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install kdenlive
  

Comments

[Slaknation]

Ok gotya. Because if you look under debian it says: "Unfortunately users of Debian stable are still stuck with 0.9.10 which is unsupported." But I see they do have 17.12.3-0ubuntu1. thanks!

[KhoPhi]

This doesn't entirely work, with regards to the if you really need a bleeding-edge version of kdenlive. I'm currently on 18.04lts, I've added the "bleeding edge ppa", yet, although 19.x is available, I don't get it in updates, nor can I manually even install it.

[N0rbert]

@Rexford "answered Jul 15 '18 at 18:27", so this is not my fault, but it is PPA owners decision. Thanks anyway!

[user303371]

@KhoPhi N0rbert forgot to add the line 'sudo apt-get update' after adding the repo. You always have to update your sources when you add a new repo.

[N0rbert]

Your answer looks more as bug-report, nor really answer. I have reported bug 1849946 to launchpad. I do not see icons on the toolbar.

[N0rbert]

Thanks @user303371, but add-apt-repository do this automatically on new Ubuntu releases (since 0.96.24.20 as in bionic). So really it is not needed here and will double network traffic.