You should use the AppImage instead. Download it from https://www.openshot.org/nl/download/ . It should detect that you have a Linux version and offer to download the AppImage version.
An AppImage is basically a sort of zip-file containing all depedencies and usually works without any problems.
When downloading, put it in a folder of your choice (rather not keep it in ~/Downloads
. Then in a terminal make it executable:
martin@Jupiter:/mnt/ssd/AppImages$ chmod a+x OpenShot-v3.1.0-x86_64.AppImage
Then create a Desktop shortcut file in /home/<your username>/.local/share/applications
using e.g. gedit
or the editor of your choice, and name it openshot.desktop
.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=OpenShot Video Editor
GenericName=Video Ediging
Comment=Create your own videos
Exec=/mnt/ssd/AppImages/OpenShot-v3.1.0-x86_64.AppImage
Icon=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Notice that the Icon
part is empty. You could search for an icon of OpenShot, put in the same directory and then point to it (full path is recommended) in the Icon=
line. For instance this link. wiki
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=OpenShot Video Editor
GenericName=Video Editing
Comment=Create your own videos
Exec=/mnt/ssd/AppImages/OpenShot-v3.1.0-x86_64.AppImage
Icon=/mnt/ssd/AppImages/openshot-arrow.png
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Afterwards just open the applications menu in UBuntu and start typing 'openshot' and it should appear.