How to start Shotcut?

[satimis]

OS - Ubuntu 20.04

I have shotcut-linux-x86_64-220130.txz package download on Shortcut website.

Running on Terminal following command line to extract it;
$ xz -d < shotcut-linux-x86_64-220130.txz | tar xvf -

```
.......
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/frei0r-1/balanc0r.so
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/frei0r-1/blend.so
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/frei0r-1/softlight.so
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/frei0r-1/sigmoidaltransfer.so
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/frei0r-1/IIRblur.so
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/libavdevice.so
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/libxcb-shape.so.0
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/libpostproc.so.55.9.100
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/libavcodec.so.58.134.100
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/libQt5QmlWorkerScript.so.5
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/libx264.so.163
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/libzimg.so
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/libXdmcp.so.6
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/libxcb-render-util.so.0
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/liblz4.so.1
Shotcut/Shotcut.app/lib/libva-drm.so.2
Shotcut/Shotcut.desktop

Please advise how to start Shotcut?

Tks

Regards

[TimLau]

Use the Appimage, Snap or flatpak, much easier to use on Linux

[satimis]

Thanks for your advice.

I have no problem to install Shotcut running Appimage, Snap or Flatpak. But I expect to learn how to install Shotcut on shotcut-linux-x86_64-220130.txz package. This is my first time running .txz package.

Regards

[TimLau]

Follow the instruction on the download page:

Linux portable tar users: No install required, simply extract the archive and run it. You can drag the Shotcut folder to copy and move it wherever you want. If double-clicking the icon in your file manager does not launch Shotcut, open Shotcut.app, and try double-clicking the shotcut shell script. Do not try to run bin/shotcut directly.

But I don’t understand why, you want to use it, if the other 3 formats works fine, there is no benefit on using the tar version

[satimis]

I have extracted shotcut-linux-x86_64-220130.txz as mentioned on my OP.

Shotcut (folder)
Shotcut.app
Shotcut.decktop

Shotcut.app (folder)
bin
lib
share
ffmpeg
ffplay
ffprobe
shotcut
source-me
version

I suppose “shotcut” is the start-script
On File Manager, double-click "shotcut’ without response.

Do I need to run on Terminal:
$ chmod +x shotcut
?

It is just for curiosity, learning another way to install Shotcut

Edit
I can’t start Shotcut by double-clicking shotcut script on File Manager. But I can start Shotcut on Terminal running;
$ ./shotcut (shotcut script)

$ ls -l shotcut

-rwxr-xr-x 1 satimis satimis 961 Jan 30 16:42 shotcut