Install obs flatpak
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Big announcement recently that obs studio now builds out to a flatpak, hopefully making it easier for all of us to install, especially us near normies that...

Date: February 25, 2022

Big announcement recently that obs studio now builds out to a flatpak, hopefully making it easier for all of us to install, especially us near normies that don’t regularly compile anything from source.

install flatpak
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I did not have flatpak installed so the first thing I had to do was get the flatpak command installed, and add their default repo.

```
sudo apt install flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
```

Once I had flatpak, I was able to get obs installed with the following command.

```
flatpak install flathub com.obsproject.Studio
```

Once Installed it fired right up for me with the next command they suggested.

```
flatpak run com.obsproject.Studio
```

It Works
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Pretty straightforward, following the instructions given it all worked for me, but it was missing a lot of the plugins that the current snap package I am using gives me (namely virtual webcam). So I am not ready to jump onto it until I figure out how to manage my own obs plugins. For now I think the snap is working just well enough.

Links
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- flatpak setup for ubuntu
- obs release notes
- obs flatpak