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steff

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Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 58

[solved]kdenlive not starting

I get a "kdenlive: error while loading shared libraries: libmlt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" error, when creating a symlink either to this backup or to lbmlt.so it says libmlt++ missing, creating both symlinks kdenlive is starting but gives "fatal error MLT's Sdl module not found.

 cd /usr/lib
locate libmlt.so.1
/usr/local/lib/backup/libmlt.so.1
sudo ln -s libmlt++.so libmlt++.so.1
sudo ln -s  /usr/lib/libmlt.so  libmlt.so.1
  

Downgrading to older versions of june 2012 (last time it was working) not helped, same errors about missing files in /usr/lib or missing module:
kdenlive (0.9.2-2 -> 0.9.2-1)
mlt (0.8.0-1 -> 0.7.8-2)

Thanks for any help.

Last edited by steff (2012-09-01 17:13:07)

masteryod

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Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 433

Re: [solved]kdenlive not starting

I'm taking a shot here: When was the last time you did pacman -Syu? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … nsupported

Last edited by masteryod (2012-08-26 16:23:09)

steff

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Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 58

Re: [solved]kdenlive not starting

Thanks for replying, I update every some days, so this should not be the cause.

masteryod

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Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 433

Re: [solved]kdenlive not starting

Hmm, I just installed kdenlive and everything is fine here. Did you tried google? there's a lot about this, for example: http://www.kdenlive.org/forum/mlts-sdl-module-not-found

About updates: to be sure everything is ok, first upgrade your system and then install package. Otherwise you could end up having newer package and old libraries because you didn't upgrade them beforehand. Everything is in that link above.

steff

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Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 58

Re: [solved]kdenlive not starting

Kdenlive was always installed, so there should be no problems. I disinstalled and upgraded teh system  and reinstalled kdenlive and mlt several times with the same results... missing libmlt.so.1 and libmlt++.so.1, deleted also the config  files in ~/.kde4

Last edited by steff (2012-08-27 20:59:56)

steff

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Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 58

Re: [solved]kdenlive not starting

Found the cause of the problem: there was another install from kdenlive in /usr/local, from 2009 I think from compiling... no idea why the problems appeared only now, but It happened for other apps to: rekonq and stellarium, somehow the preferenze of the executable  passed from /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin.