How to install Lightworks in Ubuntu 16.04
To install Lightworks in Ubuntu 16.04
Lightworks is a full-featured non-linear fast editing app with all the power and performance. Lightworks support several formats and is its Pro version is used by several top professional editors. It is very simple to install Lightworks and this tutorial covers the installation process involved with Lightworks on Ubuntu.
Installing Lightworks
First, make sure you download the Lightworks installation package with the help of the following command.
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# wget http://downloads.lwks.com/v14/lwks-14.0.0-amd64.deb
--2017-06-16 13:28:26-- http://downloads.lwks.com/v14/lwks-14.0.0-amd64.deb
Resolving downloads.lwks.com (downloads.lwks.com)... 64.64.4.94
Connecting to downloads.lwks.com (downloads.lwks.com)|64.64.4.94|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 65869132 (63M) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: ‘ lwks-14.0.0-amd64.deb’
100%[===================================================================================================================================================================> ] 6,58,69,132 241KB/s in 9m 39s
2017-06-16 13:38:26 (111 KB/s) - ‘ lwks-14.0.0-amd64.deb’ saved [65869132/65869132]
Once the package is downloaded, install it as follows.
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# dpkg -i lwks-14.0.0-amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package lightworks.
(Reading database ... 168112 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack lwks-14.0.0-amd64.deb ...
Unpacking lightworks (14.0.0.0) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lightworks:
lightworks depends on nvidia-cg-toolkit however:
Package nvidia-cg-toolkit is not installed.
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Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.0-0ubuntu4.1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
Lightworks
During the installation process, you will come accross to solve the dependency error, use the following command to sort it out.
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
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Setting up nvidia-cg-toolkit (3.1.0013-1) ...
Setting up libportaudiocpp0:amd64 (19+svn20140130-1) ...
Setting up lightworks (14.0.0.0) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.9) ...
Lightworks has been installed, run the following command to access it.
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# lightworks
Once the application is opened, register an account in Lightworks
Account has been created.
Once you are inside the application, create a new project to produce a new one.
Give name and choose a frame rate for your new project.
You can also add VFX to your videos.
Hope it was a helpful tutorial.
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