SDL2 Lib not found after auto shotcut update

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1

I worked this evening on a project in shotcut. No crashes all evening, all fine. Great!

now I closed software and it just did an auto update to version 25.10.31. I use ubuntu 24.04.3 .
After that I want to start shotcut again, but it fails! It says it needs the SDL2 Lib.

Why does it need now this lib? And why it doesn’t install it by itself ?

It is confusing for the user if a lib is missing after an auto update of software.

2

SDL2 is used for audio output. It has always used it. It looks like when upgrading the OS to support Snap core (20.04 expired) plus a newer Qt, it lost the bundled libSDL2-2.0.so.0. It is not being auto-detected as a dependency to be bundled for some reason. I think I found the reason, will check tomorrow’s daily build.

3

Thank you.

I found out how to install the lib manually:
in command line

sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-2.0-0 -y

thats all. Perhaps it help other users here.

4

My fix worked, and I am going to update the release page and Snap with a new Linux builds versioned 25.11.2

5

Great, thank you very much

6

I just got the new program version automatically.

This update had no problems. Startup was fine.