Recommended way to install Kdenlive on Ubuntu 18.04

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

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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 1:

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.

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
  

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