Learn how to – Install Lightworks Video Editor on Fedora 38/37/36/35/34/33

Learn how to – Install Lightworks Video Editor on Fedora 38/37/36/35/34/33.

Lightworks is an open source Video editing software application which can be installed on Linux, Windows and macOS operating systems. This is an alternative to commercial video editor applications such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X. In this guide we will explain how to download and install Lightworks Video Editor on Fedora Linux operating systems.

Lightworks has wide native format support available in any professional NLE. MXF, Quicktime and AVI containers, with almost every format you can think of importing natively without the need for transcoding, from ProRes, Avid DNxHD, AVC-Intra, DVCPRO HD, RED R3D, DPX, AVCHD (with AC3 audio), H.264, XDCAM EX / HD 422, all on the same timeline in real-time.

Install Lightworks Video Editor on 38/37/36/35/34/33

The new release of Lightworks as of this article update is 2022.1. This version contains large number of new features and improvements. For example the project frame-rate limitation has been completely removed, allowing media with any frame-rate (including variable rate) to be imported into a project, played back, logged, and added into sequences seamlessly.

This new release also added Support for macOS 11 (Big Sur). We will do a separate guide on the installation of Lightworks Video Editor on macOS Big Sur.

1) Download Lightworks RPM Package

Lightworks packages for various Linux operating systems are available in the releases page from the official Lightworks website.

On Red Hat based systems such as Fedora you’ll download .RPM package. This can be done from the command line with wget/curl of manually from the downloads page.

sudo yum -y install wget
wget https://cdn.lwks.com/releases/2022.1.1/lightworks_2022.1.1_r132185.rpm

Confirm that the release you’ve downloading is the latest.

2) Install Lightworks Video Editor on Fedora

Once the package has been downloaded to the local system, we can install with yum command.

But we’ll first add RPM Fusion repository:

sudo dnf install -y  https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install -y https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Install libCg which provides libCg.so()(64bit) needed by lightworks:

sudo dnf -y install libCg

Install the package:

sudo dnf install ./lightworks_2022.1.1_r132185.rpm

Accept installation prompts:

Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                       Architecture                             Version                                            Repository                                      Size
================================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 lightworks                                    x86_64                                   2022.1.1-1                                         @commandline                                    81 M
Installing dependencies:
 libcxx                                        x86_64                                   14.0.0-1.fc36                                      fedora                                         321 k
 libcxxabi                                     x86_64                                   14.0.0-1.fc36                                      fedora                                          83 k
 mesa-libGLU                                   x86_64                                   9.0.1-6.fc36                                       fedora                                         155 k
 ocl-icd                                       x86_64                                   2.3.0-2.fc35                                       fedora                                          65 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install  5 Packages

Total size: 82 M
Total download size: 624 k
Installed size: 348 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y

3) Launch and use Lightworks Video Editor on Fedora

Launch and start using Lightworks Video Editor on Fedora after installation.

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