About versions

The latest released version is 0.15 . In PiTiVi's world, releases get outdated quickly. You may want to try out the development version instead of a "stable" release, depending on your needs.

Now, what do you want to do?

I just want to download the pre-built packages

Packages provided with Linux distributions

Various Linux distributions provide PiTiVi in their repositories, but the version provided may be too old. For an optimal experience, make sure you are using PiTiVi 0.15 . Some of the distros providing PiTiVi are:

  • Ubuntu and Debian: aptitude install pitivi (or simply click this link)
  • Gentoo: emerge pitivi
  • Fedora: yum install pitivi
  • openSUSE: zypper in pitivi

Our Ubuntu PPA

An Ubuntu repository is maintained by our team to ease testing. To use it, add ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa to your system's Software Sources. You can also add it by running this command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa && sudo apt-get update

I want to compile the latest stable PiTiVi version

Taking care of dependencies

Ubuntu users have a repository for testing PiTiVi on Launchpad. This will ensure you have the latest required gstreamer components.

On most Linux distributions, there are commands to install most (if not all) the required pitivi dependencies automatically, thus saving you a lot of time.

  • On Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions: apt-get build-dep pitivi
  • On Fedora/Redhat-based systems: yum-builddep pitivi
  • On openSUSE: zypper si pitivi

You will probably also need the packages gcc, intltool, python-goocanvas and python-zopeinterface (if the above command did not fetch them for you automatically). On a Fedora/Redhat system, you can get a list of the package runtime dependencies by running yum deplist pitivi.

Getting the code

Tarballs of PiTiVi are available on GNOME FTP and mirrors.

Compiling

PiTiVi doesn't need to be compiled, but has to be configured all the same. So you have to go through the usual:

./configure && make

And optionally, to install it system-wide:

sudo make install

I want to compile the development version

Taking care of dependencies

Ubuntu users have a repository for testing PiTiVi on Launchpad. This will ensure you have the latest required gstreamer components.

On most Linux distributions, there are commands to install most (if not all) the required pitivi dependencies automatically, thus saving you a lot of time.

  • On Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions: apt-get build-dep pitivi
  • On Fedora/Redhat-based systems: yum-builddep pitivi
  • On openSUSE: zypper si pitivi

You will probably also need the packages gcc, intltool, python-goocanvas and python-zopeinterface (if the above command did not fetch them for you automatically). On a Fedora/Redhat system, you can get a list of the package runtime dependencies by running yum deplist pitivi.

Getting the code

PiTiVi uses Git as its official revision control system. Detailed instructions on how to use PiTiVi with Git are available here. You can also view the repository history online (see also the other Git repositories).

To get the PiTiVi master branch:

git clone git://git.pitivi.org/git/pitivi.git

You can then go in the directory where you pulled the git branch and build PiTiVi; note that you need subversion and CVS, because the ./configure script will pull certain things from gstreamer CVS.

Compiling

PiTiVi doesn't need to be compiled, but has to be configured all the same. So you have to go through the usual:

./autogen.sh && ./configure && make

If ./configure fails with something like the following, then you also need to install the intltool package.

...
checking for dcgettext... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
./configure: line 5876: syntax error near unexpected token `0.35.0'
./configure: line 5876: `IT_PROG_INTLTOOL(0.35.0)'
configure failed

Running PiTiVi

You can run pitivi locally (without needing to install it system-wide; recommended for development) using the following command (make sure you're in the pitivi git directory already):

bin/pitivi
Page last modified: August 14 2011 21:17:20.