Kdenlive hits a critical error after installation

[Ricardo Graça]

After a fresh install of Kdenlive it complaints that there is some problem with MLT and that it can't find an SDL module. This makes it impossible to run the version of the program that is on the official Ubuntu 11.10 repositories. It seems the problem is related to an incorrect version of libmlt++3. The available version of this lib (0.7.4-3) seems to be incompatible with the version of kdenlive currently available (0.8-4).

Steps to reproduce:

1) Install kdenlive from the Ubuntu repositories
2) Run kdenlive

Expected result:

Kdenlive works and I can do video editing

Actual result:

Kdenlive doesn't even start and I can't do video editing

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: kdenlive 0.8-4build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 23 21:53:21 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: kdenlive
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)