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[cenwen <eolinwen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Diff

Certainly so we are going to create one, the good (i hope). So in a console try that :
sudo ln -s $(ls -C /usr/lib/libmlt.so.0.4.10 | cut -f 1 -d' ') /usr/lib/libmlt++.so.2

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Openshot fails to import mlt and then fails to start
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537431
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Status in “openshot” package in Ubuntu: New

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

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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

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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)
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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?