[needs-packaging] Cinelerra

[Saie Surendra]

[needs-packaging] Cinelerra

I am using UbuntuStudio and this should be available on it as its the best linux video editor up to professional standards
but no matter howmany times I ave tried, I have not been able to get it installed on my ubuntustudio

URL: http://cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php#ubuntu
ppa: https://launchpad.net/~cinelerra-ppa
License: Open source

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Scott Lavender (slavender)]

removed 'ubuntustudio-devel' team. this team is a sub-team of 'ubuntustudio' and is therefore getting multiple emails for this bug.

[Guest One (g.one)]

With Kdenlive one of the best professional video editors.
I don't know why isn't in official repositories.

[Janne Jokitalo (astraljava)]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 06:16:44PM -0000, Jeff wrote:
> With Kdenlive one of the best professional video editors.
> I don't know why isn't in official repositories.

I don't know why you say that. I'm not on a ubuntu box right now, so I'm relying
on packages.ubuntu com [0] here, but it says:

Package: kdenlive (0.8.2.1-1ubuntu1) [universe]

Could you check what the output of `apt-cache policy kdenlive` says?

[0]: http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/kdenlive

[Guest One (g.one)]

I'm talking about Cinerella when i said "isn't in official repositories" ;-)

[Janne Jokitalo (astraljava)]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 09:16:15PM -0000, Jeff wrote:
> I'm talking about Cinerella when i said "isn't in official repositories"
> ;-)

Ahh... well that was a bit confusing.

You can check out this forums thread [0], which has links to relevant bugs on
Debian, explaining why it can't be added to free software distributions.

There's also a link [1] to the latest re-write, Lumiera, which hasn't been
included, yet, either. But it'd be nice if someone gave it a test-run, so we'd
know whether there's any point in adding it at these stages, or should we wait
for a more stable and feature-rich release.

[0]: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1619131
[1]: http://lumiera.org/

[Stefano (stefano-droghetti)]

It's more than one year I use it on Ubuntu and it never crashed. It's a great and stable software.

It's been already packaged for Ubuntu so it's very easy to include it in the official repositories. To add the official Cinelerra CV PPA just type (on all distributions):
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:cinelerra-ppa/ppa

The official site: http://cinelerra.org/

[muzzol (muzzol)]

about 4 or 5 years ago I was trying to package cinelerra with the goal of including it in official repos.

the problem was (and still is) about licensing. people of http://www.heroinewarrior.com doesn't really help to resolve the situation and the whole issue was stalled. that was the main reason about creating lumiera.

so is not about technical problems that cinelerra isn't in the repos, but licensing ones.

if you wanna be helpful, maybe you can join cinelerra ml and work on that direction. but be advised, I tried and got tired of all bureaucratic details that some people didn't want to resolve.

[Janne Jokitalo (astraljava)]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 08:06:09AM -0000, Stefano wrote:
<snip>
> It's been already packaged for Ubuntu so it's very easy to include it in the
> official repositories. To add the official Cinelerra CV PPA just type (on all
> distributions): sudo apt-add-repository ppa:cinelerra-ppa/ppa

I don't whether you read that forums thread, or whether the Cinelerra people
have done the license fixes the whole distribution world has been waiting for
years now, but unless the latter, then no, it isn't very easy to include.

I didn't see any progress on the licensing issues while having a peek at the
website, so I asked on their channel in freenode. I'll let you know if there is
any relevant change concerning the inclusion to the distribution.

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 267614, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.