background blur plugin with flatpack installation on Ubuntu 22.04

[aryeh]

Installed version 29.1.3 flatpack (the version from apt install was only 27.x).
Installed obs-backgroundremoval-1.1.5-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb using eddy installer.
However, the plugin does not appear in the filters lists, and apparently is not detected by obs-studio.

How can I install this plugin so that obs-studio will find it?

 

[AaronD]

Did you read the sticky threads in this forum?

Ubuntu PPA Installation Instructions

The Linux version of OBS is still under development and contains many bugs, but if you're feeling brave, and can install Ubuntu PPAs, then you can give this a try. If you're on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, you'll first need to install FFmpeg: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kirillshkrogalev/ffmpeg-next sudo...

obsproject.com

Specifically, sudo apt-add-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
Then the normal update process gets you the latest official release.

OBS 27 to 28 changes graphics frameworks, which breaks almost everything. New plugins don't work before then, and old ones don't work after.

Flatpak, snap, and other "sandbox systems" look for things in different places, so a native installer probably won't work for them.

 

[aryeh]

Sorry - I thought that since 2014 this had changed.
The OBS github page https://github.com/royshil/obs-backgroundremoval says:

OBS Version Support and Compatibility​

• OBS version 29+ (download) for the latest version of this plugin, e.g. 1.1.x and above.
• OBS version 28+ for this plugin's version between 0.5.x and 1.0.x.
• OBS version 27+ for this plugin's version 0.4.x and below.

and I installed 1.1.5 .

 

[aryeh]

I found the solution on the github page. SInce I installed OBS with flatpack, I needed to do flatpack installation of the plugin.
flatpak install com.obsproject.Studio.Plugin.BackgroundRemoval