I started using cinelerra over 15 years ago for producing simple holiday/ travel home videos and educational videos. Initially, cinelerra was installed on an Acer laptop running Ubuntu 10.04.
It’s very easy and intuitive to use, and laden with features you don’t get with other programs such as Adobe premiere or kdenlive.
My problem has been that the version of Cinelerra-gg must be in sync with a number of library dependencies, and in more recent years after updating Ubuntu, these libraries were no longer the versions required by Cinelerra. So cinelerra-gg no longer ran on Ubuntu, nor could I install cinelerra even from source, defeated by dependency hell.
The problem was Ubuntu - based on a certain Debian version, but there are also a number of bleeding edge libraries which are not in keeping with that particular Debian version nor the libraries required by Cinelerra.
The solution has been on the present cinelerra-gg.org/downloads page, to scroll down and use a Linux distribution that includes the cinelerra program in the package, and installing this on your computer.
But better still, I found that the packages provided by Elive Linux were matched to a Linux distribution which is fully based on a particular Debian version.
For example, Debian 12 codename “Bookworm” can be obtained from the Debian website, or Mint LMDE (LMDE ‘Faye’ is based on Debian 12) can be obtained from linuxmint.com, and because these distributions contained all Debian 12 libraries, the cinelerra package that requires Debian 12 libraries is easily installed without any dependency problems. Bravo.
For those with old hardware, then antiX Linux from antixlinux.com is the go.
I have antiX based on Debian 12 installed on a 2007 64-bit desktop pc, which then quickly and easily installed the latest 64-bit cinelerra-gg.deb package from the Elive Debian 12 link without any dependency problems.
And, I have 32-bit antiX based on Debian 12 installed on a 32-bit 2002 desktop pc, which then quickly installed the latest 32-bit cinelerra-gg.deb package from the Elive link.
The above is probably a lot of mumbo-jumbo to a linux newbie, so I wondered whether to produce and self-host a simple static web page with simple step-by-step HOW TO instructions and links.
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