Question / Help Compiling from Source without "Make Install"?

[vitorgatti]

I want to try OBS from source in my Ubuntu 14.04, but I don't like installing software with "make install", as it's not easy to remove it later.

So I was following this thread:
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/compiling-and-installing-in-debian.17864/

And the problem is that I successfully compiled ffmpeg (make only, no make install), but when I try to compile obs, I get this error message:
Could NOT find FFMpeg (missing: FFMPEG_AVFORMAT_LIBRARIES

I tried to tinker with the CMake files, but I couldn't find a way to tell cmake where my compiled ffmpeg directory is, so it can be used as base to compile obs.

Any protips?

Thanks!

 

[Lain]

For debian-based distros you're not supposed to use 'make install', you're supposed to use checkinstall, which builds an actual package that your package manager tracks and can remove later on.

Please see the debian-based distro section here for more information on how to compile manually and use: https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/blob/master/INSTALL

 

[vitorgatti]

For some reason the checkinstall was not working as intended, but after I ppa-purged all ffmpeg and obs PPAs, everything worked.

Thanks!