Installation Instructions

Once all the pre-requisites are installed, use the following commands to clone the source code:

    git clone https://github.com/OpenShot/libopenshot-audio.gitgit clone https://github.com/OpenShot/libopenshot.gitgit clone https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt.git

In order to actually compile or run OpenShot, we need to install some dependencies on your system

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/libopenshot-dailysudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install openshot-qt \cmake \ libx11-dev \ libasound2-dev \ libavcodec-dev \ libavdevice-dev \ libavfilter-dev \libavformat-dev \ libavresample-dev \ libavutil-dev \ libfdk-aac-dev \ libfreetype6-dev \libjsoncpp-dev \ libmagick++-dev \ libopenshot-audio-dev \ libswscale-dev \ libunittest++-dev \libxcursor-dev \ libxinerama-dev \ libxrandr-dev \ libzmq3-dev \ pkg-config \ python3-dev \qtbase5-dev \ qtmultimedia5-dev \ swig

At this point, you should have all 3 OpenShot components source code cloned into local folders. Now, run the following commands to build and install libopenshot-audio:

    cd libopenshot-audiomkdir buildcd buildcmake ../make install

Now, we are switching to the libopenshot-audio/build folder, and running cmake ../ on the parent folder. However, this folder finds dependencies and creates all the needed Makefiles used to compile this library. Then make install uses those Makefiles to compile, and install this library. Therefore, this should result in files being installed to your /usr/local/ folder.

Then, run the following commands to build and install libopenshot:

    cd libopenshotmkdir buildcd buildcmake ../make installsudo ldconfig

Now, we are switching to the libopenshot/build folder, and running cmake ../ on the parent folder. However, this folder finds dependencies and creates all the needed Makefiles used to compile this library. Then make install uses those Makefiles to compile, and install this library. After that, this should result in files being installed to your /usr/local/ folder and in your Python site-packages folder. However, the ldconfig command updates the system’s library cache.

To launch openshot-qt from the source code, use the following commands:

    cd openshot-qtpython3 src/launch.py

Finally, this will launch the OpenShot user interfac.