Installing obs-text-slideshow Plugin on Linux

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fw12

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I'm trying to install Text Slideshow plugin on Ubuntu. But it does not show under Sources.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-text-slideshow.1303/

Required Minimum OBS Studio Version: 27.0.0

My OBS version: 27.1.3

I downloaded the .DEB file, and installed as follows...

sudo dpkg -i obs-text-slideshow_1.5.2-1_amd64-1.deb

---------------begin output---------------

(Reading database ... 268146 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to unpack obs-text-slideshow_1.5.2-1_amd64-1.deb ...

Unpacking obs-text-slideshow (1.5.2-1) over (1.5.2-1) ...

Setting up obs-text-slideshow (1.5.2-1) ...

---------------end output---------------

After installation, I closed and reopened OBS.

I am supposed to see Text Slide Show (GDI+) under Sources.

But it does not show.

How can I diagnose this issue?
 
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fw12

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After much digging around, I found the plugin installed here:

/usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-text-slideshow

However, my OBS was installed using snap. And that is where the problem came from.
Snap plugins are here,
/snap/obs-studio/1284/usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/

I tried to copy the plugin over,
sudo cp -R /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-text-slideshow /snap/obs-studio/1284/usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/

but got this error

cp: cannot create directory '/snap/obs-studio/1284/usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-text-slideshow': Read-only file system

Apparently snap made the plugin directory read-only.

So how do I install this plugin under snap?
 
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fw12

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I'm posting the solution that worked for me. Hopefully it helps someone.

$ mkdir -p ~/snap/obs-studio/current/.config/obs-studio/plugins/obs-text-slideshow/bin/64bit

$ mkdir -p ~/snap/obs-studio/current/.config/obs-studio/plugins/obs-text-slideshow/data

$ cp /usr/lib/obs-plugins/obs-text-slideshow.so ~/snap/obs-studio/current/.config/obs-studio/plugins/obs-text-slideshow/bin/64bit/

$ cp -R /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-text-slideshow/locale ~/snap/obs-studio/current/.config/obs-studio/plugins/obs-text-slideshow/data/
 
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