Hi, Absolutely, it's a packaging bug and therefore related to Ubuntu packaging rather than Openshot code. It's unfortunate that people will view it as an Openshot issue, when they install it via the software center but that's the way these things work.
-- Openshot fails to import mlt and then fails to start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537431 You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenShot Developers, which is subscribed to openshot in ubuntu. Status in “openshot” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: openshot Openshot fails to start (amd64 arch) with the following error $ openshot -------------------------------- OpenShot (version 1.1.0) -------------------------------- *** ERROR: MLT Python bindings failed to import *** *** ERROR: MLT Python bindings failed to import *** Exception in thread Thread-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 527, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/openshot/classes/thumbnail.py", line 170, in run mlt.Factory().init() NameError: global name 'mlt' is not defined ------------------------------------------------------- Error: OpenShot has not been installed in the Python path. (Both the site-packages and /usr/share/openshot folders were checked) Use the following command to install OpenShot: $ sudo python setup.py install --- Packages installed $ dpkg -l python-mlt2 openshot Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii openshot 1.1.0-0ubuntu1 Create and edit videos and movies ii python-mlt2 0.4.10-5ubuntu multimedia framework (python bindings) ---- Debs used python-mlt2_0.4.10-5ubuntu1_amd64.deb openshot_1.1.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb Potentially a problem only on amd64 is i386 users aren't seeing the same thing? More info needed? _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
