How to install Kdenlive 17.04.3 on Linux Mint 18.3
To install Kdenlive 17.04.3 on Linux Mint 18.3
Kdenlive is an open source video editing application is a cross-platform package available for all major operating systems i.e. Linux, Microsoft Windows, MacOS..etc. This application was first developed by a small team on the year 2003 but now it' s becoming a professional video editing software. Kdenlive is packed with several features and some of them are listed as follows.
Features
- supports any video or audio formats for editing
- can use multiple tracks to mix more features in video
- availability of several video effects and transition effects
- Minimum hardware requirements. You can use this application on normal graphic card with minimum 2 GB of RAM, etc
- more transitions and effect addons available to download from official website of Kdenlive.
It is so simple to install Kdenlive and this tutorial covers the method to install Kdenlive on Linux Mint 18.3
Installing Kdenlive
First, make sure you update your system by making use of the following command.
linuxhelp user # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release [24.2 kB]
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Fetched 5,024 kB in 8s (618 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Once it is done, you need to add the necessary repository with the help of the following command.
linuxhelp user # apt-add-repository ppa:kdenlive/kdenlive-stable
You are about to add the following PPA:
More info: https://launchpad.net/~kdenlive/+archive/ubuntu/kdenlive-stable
Press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel
Executing: /tmp/tmp.5jIrQlKorn/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80
--recv-keys
7709FE97
gpg: requesting key 7709FE97 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 7709FE97: public key " Launchpad PPA for Kdenlive" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
Once it is done, you need to update your system again by making use of the following command.
linuxhelp user # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kdenlive/kdenlive-stable/ubuntu xenial InRelease [18.1 kB]
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Ign:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease
Hit:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kdenlive/kdenlive-stable/ubuntu xenial/main Sources [2,288 B]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kdenlive/kdenlive-stable/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [4,512 B]
Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kdenlive/kdenlive-stable/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [4,528 B]
Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kdenlive/kdenlive-stable/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [1,876 B]
Fetched 236 kB in 2s (114 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
You shall now trigger the installation of Kdenlive by making use of the following command.
linuxhelp user # apt-get install kdenlive
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
breeze-icon-theme ffmpeg kded5 kdenlive-data kinit kio libavdevice-ffmpeg56 libdbusmenu-qt5 libfam0 libkf5archive5 libkf5attica5 libkf5auth-data
libkf5auth5 libkf5bookmarks-data libkf5bookmarks5 libkf5codecs-data libkf5codecs5 libkf5completion-data libkf5completion5 libkf5config-data
libkf5configcore5 libkf5configgui5 libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5configwidgets5 libkf5coreaddons-data libkf5coreaddons5 libkf5crash5
libkf5dbusaddons-data libkf5dbusaddons5 libkf5filemetadata-data libkf5filemetadata3 libkf5globalaccel-data libkf5globalaccel5 libkf5gpgmepp5
libkf5guiaddons5 libkf5i18n-data libkf5i18n5 libkf5iconthemes-data libkf5iconthemes5 libkf5itemviews-data libkf5itemviews5 libkf5jobwidgets-data
oxygen5-icon-theme qml-module-qtquick-controls qml-module-qtquick-controls-styles-breeze qml-module-qtquick-layouts qml-module-qtquick-window2
qml-module-qtquick2
Suggested packages:
ffmpeg-doc khelpcenter fam
Recommended packages:
frei0r-plugins swh-plugins dvdauthor dvgrab libkf5config-bin libkf5dbusaddons-bin libkf5filemetadata-bin libkf5globalaccel-bin libkf5iconthemes-bin
sonnet-plugins kwayland-integration qtwayland5 libkf5xmlgui-bin vdpau-driver-all | vdpau-driver.
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Setting up kio (5.18.0-0ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up oxygen5-icon-theme (5.18.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up oxygen-icon-theme (5:5.18.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up breeze-icon-theme (4:5.18.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libkf5bookmarks-data (5.18.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libkf5xmlgui-data (5.18.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libkf5attica5:amd64 (5.18.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libkf5globalaccel-data (5.18.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libkf5globalaccel5:amd64 (5.18.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libmlt6 (6.5+git201704252005~ubuntu16.04.1) ...
Setting up melt (6.5+git201704252005~ubuntu16.04.1) ...
Setting up libmlt++3 (6.5+git201704252005~ubuntu16.04.1) ...
Setting up kdenlive (4:17.04.3+git201707101839~ubuntu16.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3.3) ...
Now that Kdenlive has been installed, you shall find and launch it from your Linux Mint search field.

Type Kdenlive in the search field.

The Kdenlive application icon appears on the screen, so click on it to launch it.

The Kdenlive application now appears on your screen.

With this, the installation of Kdenlive 17.04.3 on Linux Mint 18.3
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