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Hi,

Absolutely, it's a packaging bug and therefore related to Ubuntu
packaging rather than Openshot code. It's unfortunate that people will
view it as an Openshot issue, when they install it via the software
center but that's the way these things work.

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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: Invalid

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?