How to install Lightworks on openSUSE
Good ole openSUSE and it’s packaging issues. The maintainers would strongly argue that it’s not their packaging issues, instead it’s upstream packaging issues. Which is fair, but I digress.
Missing Packages?!
The word missing might be a bit misleading. Lightworks complains that libcrypto isn’t available, but it’s a version issue. Lightworks is particular about the version it wants, which is reasonable because libcrypto is a cryptography library.
How to install Lightworks 14.5 on openSUSE
Even though Lightworks provides a handy rpm package, it’s packaged for Fedora (and possibly CentOS), not openSUSE. And while it would be super handy if openSUSE had compatibility packages in their repos like Arch does, alas they do not.
Before you follow the steps I’ve listed below, you’ll need to make sure the Packman repository is installed. I wrote this article on how to install it. Onward to the install steps!
- Hop over to the Lightworks site and download the rpm.
- Open a terminal at the location where the Lightworks rpm was downloaded
- Use zypper to install it. Ex: sudo zypper install Lightworks-145RC7–107216–14.5.0.0.rpm
- Select “Solution 2: break lightworks by ignoring some of its dependencies” when prompted about libcrypto
- Ignore the error (i) exclaiming that the package is not signed
You now have a questionable and broken Lightworks package installed! However it won’t work until you shim the correct libcrypto package into your lib64 folder. This part is super hacky but if you really want to get Lightworks running on openSUSE, this is what you have to do!
- Download the correct version of libcrypto.so.10 for Fedora
- Extract the zip file and locate libcrypto.so.10 & libcrypto.so.1.0.20
- Move both of the libs to your /usr/lib64/ directory
Assuming Lightworks hasn’t changed anything with their dependencies or libs, you should be able to run it now!
Yes, I know
This method of “library-copying” is super sketchy and to be honest, you really shouldn’t be doing it. When you install packages from your system’s repositories, you can be assured that you are getting the correct libraries from a secure source. If you download and copy them like in this article, you don’t really know what you are getting. This is very dangerous!
However dangerous it is, this method does work (for now) so if you really need to get Lightworks working on openSUSE, this is how you do it.
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