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1st of all I'm very noob in linux..I could run Openshot on ubuntu 20.04 but recently I did new clean install of 22.04 and now I can't run Openshot. I installed it through github repo,,as mention worked on 20 but not on 22.04 .

When I click openshot from launcher (show application) it does nothing.can it be it's not updated for 22.04?but I downloaded latest version of Openshot which is released after 22.04 is released.

001tonmoy
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  • OpenShot is available in the Ubuntu Universe repository. That is the tested version. – ChanganAuto May 12 '22 at 09:35
  • how can i install it?from Universe repo? – 001tonmoy May 12 '22 at 09:38
  • As usual, with the Ubuntu Software or in terminal: sudo apt install openshot-qt – ChanganAuto May 12 '22 at 09:39
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    There is a review on the download page in Ubuntu Software that suggests the Ubuntu version doesn't work with wayland the default windowing system in 22.04. That may not be the case in X11 (not tried it). – graham May 12 '22 at 09:45
  • @ChanganAuto Ubuntu software has 2.5.1 installed it but doesn't work,,I installed 2.6.1 from the page still it didn't work..But why did it run on 20.04 then? – 001tonmoy May 12 '22 at 09:48
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    @24601 mine is showing X11 but not working – 001tonmoy May 12 '22 at 09:49
  • Are you using the repository version of openshot or some manually installed version from GitHub? – Archisman Panigrahi May 12 '22 at 10:08
  • at last,,after nothing working (tried from ubuntu software,from their website,github, even the .appimage ones..but nothing worked) I just found daily builds (tried daily build appimage didn't work) which is the PPA ones and at last it's working.. – 001tonmoy May 12 '22 at 10:17
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    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/libopenshot-daily sudo apt update sudo apt install openshot-qt python3-openshot

    ONLY this worked for me,,no matter what else I tried,it didn't open

     – 001tonmoy May 12 '22 at 10:18
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    Reported as Bug #1971094: openshot doesn't start Ubuntu 22.04 fresh install – karel Jun 21 '22 at 12:08
  • I added that repository but the installed version crashed. It's an unstable developer version so it is not necessarily going to be stable long-run. I don't want an unstable version, I want a stable version. I used this as production software and it is now broken and I cannot find a workaround. Yet another aspect of Ubuntu that broke with the upgrade to 22. My system is almost unusable and I am going to have to change distros, this is only one of dozens of things that broke. The release clearly was not ready. – cazort Dec 18 '23 at 21:41

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This is a bug in OpenShot itself. To quote the bug report:

openshot doesn't start Ubuntu 22.04 fresh install

You can follow the full discussion, including potential solutions, on the bug report page.

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  • I haven't gotten anything recommended there to work. There are a lot of competing recommendations and some of them are dated and solutions that might have worked in the past might no longer work. Have you found a solution that works for you? – cazort Dec 18 '23 at 21:40
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This method works 2024 01 16 Install OpenShot in Ubuntu 22.04:

  1. Kill any running hung bad version of openshot.
  2. Uninstall any installed openshot (sudo apt-get remove.....)
  3. In a terminal run gnome-software
  4. At the top of the panel click on the (search) magnifying glass.
  5. Type in OpenShot
  6. Follow the instructions to install.
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