The preferred way to install any application in Ubuntu is to use Official Ubuntu repositories. You can use search for any package on http://packages.ubuntu.com .
There is kdenlive
version 17.12.3-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS repository (see this page for details).
To install you can run
sudo apt-get install kdenlive
This command will download about 200 MB of packages and will use about 450 MB disk space.
For 18.04 LTS there is MultiMedia PPA with kdenlive
version 18.04.1+git201805021218~ubuntu18.04.1. You can add this repository and install package by:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:torik-habib/bionic
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kdenlive
If you really need a bleeding-edge version of kdenlive
on 18.04 LTS you can choose AppImage or Flatpak (you pay with disk space):
AppImage (20.12.1c, ~0.25GB downloads)
wget https://files.kde.org/kdenlive/release/kdenlive-20.12.1c-x86_64.appimage
chmod +x kdenlive-20.12.1c-x86_64.appimage
./kdenlive-20.12.1c-x86_64.appimage
FlatPak (21.08.2, ~0.5GB downloads)
sudo apt install flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.kde.kdenlive.flatpakref
For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (and newer) you can use PPA:
“Kdenlive” team PPA (21.08.0, ~0.1GB downloads on non-Qt system):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kdenlive/kdenlive-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kdenlive
if you really need a bleeding-edge version of kdenlive
. I'm currently on 18.04lts, I've added the "bleeding edge ppa", yet, although 19.x is available, I don't get it in updates, nor can I manually even install it. – KhoPhi Jul 12 '19 at 15:33add-apt-repository
do this automatically on new Ubuntu releases (since 0.96.24.20 as in bionic). So really it is not needed here and will double network traffic. – N0rbert Oct 26 '19 at 10:11