Installing Cinelerra on Ubuntu Studio » cyberfella ltd, since 2012.

Cinelerra is the best video editor available for Linux, so as a creative user of Ubuntu Studio (and one who never gets tired of free stuff), I thought I’d take the time to quickly blog on how to install Cinelerra on Ubuntu Studio. It’s not available in the repositories (do what?) so you have to manually add the repository containing the packages for Ubuntu 12.10 and thus Ubuntu Studio 12.10

Pre-requisities

None that I’m aware of, but as a matter of routine, I always install the medibuntu repository for improved media functionality on Ubuntu. Googling medibuntu will get you to those instructions, or for the lazy, they are…

http://www.medibuntu.org/repository.php

Set up shmmax kernel parameter...

sudo su -
sudo bash -c 'echo 0x7fffffff > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax'
exit

Set an environment variable to allow Cinelerra to know where the audio stuff is...

export LADSPA_PATH=/usr/lib/ladspa
Installing Cinelerra

Add the repository (make sure any other package management software is shut, 
i.e. no synaptic package manager and no Ubuntu Software Centre running

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cinelerra-ppa/ppa

Update the package managers with the names of the packages from the cinelerra repo...

sudo apt-get update

Install Cinelerra...

sudo apt-get install cinelerra-cv

Once installed, you'll find Cinelerra under the Video Production menu in Ubuntu Studio.
Despite this, you should run it from the command line with the command cinelerra
as there is a lot of useful output sent to the console.
Then off to youtube to watch some lessons on how to use it...