Openshot app not visible anywhere

Question

I have downloaded openshot from terminal as stated on a website like this:-

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install openshot-qt

I didn't see any error in the terminal while doing that. But i couldn't find the application anywhere. Is this any other thing related to openshot; which can help me to usethat? Help..

can just run openshot or openshot-qt from terminal or Alt-F2? — pLumo, May 25 '18 at 11:57
Please [edit] your question and add the output of apt-cache policy openshot-qt in Terminal. — pomsky, May 25 '18 at 12:43
Good ! So you're simply lacking the launcher. See this question and maybe its duplicates or install and use alacarte to add a launcher — pLumo, May 25 '18 at 13:29

pLumo · Answer 1 · 2018-05-25T13:39:20.047

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As you said you can run openshot from terminal and from Run menu (Alt-F2), it seems you're simply lacking the launcher file to be able to open it from the menu.

Create an openshot.desktop file in /usr/share/applications (or ~/.local/share/applications or directly in ~/Desktop) with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Openshot
Exec=/usr/bin/openshot-qt
Icon=/path/to/openshot/icon
Type=Application
Categories=AudioVideo;

Make sure you have the correct path to the exec and to an icon.
Find icons below /usr/share/icons/

Alternatively you can use alacarte as GUI alternative to create launchers.

sudo apt install alacarte

edited May 25 '18 at 13:39

answered May 25 '18 at 13:35

pLumo

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that is why you need that launcher file – pLumo May 25 '18 at 13:39
but it worked fine for openshot-qt – Vicrobot May 25 '18 at 13:39
It adds an openshot-qt icon to the menu, so that you can access it as you normally would open any program (from the menu). Usually , the installation routines would do this for you. – pLumo May 25 '18 at 13:40
That path usr/share/icons/ has no icon of openshot – Vicrobot May 25 '18 at 13:45

Openshot app not visible anywhere

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