OpenShot has broken dependencies and will not run via experimental PPA and Karmic/9.10

[Brett Alton]

I know, I know it's an experimental PPA. But I'm submitted this bug to help the developers.

steps taken:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonoomph/openshot-edge
sudo aptitude update ; sudo aptitude install openshot
(broken dependencies, continue? y)
openshot
(errors, did not run)

I've attached a log of the entire sequence.

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

Looking at your log, the error:

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

can happen if the python path has not been set on your system. In the terminal type:

echo $PYTHONPATH

If the result is an empty string, then you need to define the python path, e.g.

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

You will then probably need to copy the files _mlt.so, mlt.py & mlt_wrap.o from ~/src/mlt/src/swig/python to /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages.

Hopefully you will then be able to start Openshot.

[Brett Alton (brett-alton-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm just confused because I installed openshot through your PPA, not via source, so why do I have to move libraries from a src/ folder that I don't have?