At first I thought it was just one, so I was going to post in its Discussion thread, but then I saw that it was ALL of them! So I'm here instead.
After updating to version 32.0.4 on a NON-production machine (not going to touch the production ones until this is fixed), and seeing OBS's titlebar reflect that, I did this in a terminal (added double-space between commands for readabiity):
and OBS still does this:
Indeed, the plugins are not in their usual places, as if none of them are installed. At the time of this writing, those are all the latest versions.
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After updating to version 32.0.4 on a NON-production machine (not going to touch the production ones until this is fixed), and seeing OBS's titlebar reflect that, I did this in a terminal (added double-space between commands for readabiity):
Code:
aaron@aaron-M6800:~$ cd ~/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/
aaron@aaron-M6800:~/Downloads/OBS/Plugins$ sudo apt reinstall ./Advanced-Scene-Switcher/advanced-scene-switcher-1.32.6-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb
[sudo] password for aaron:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'advanced-scene-switcher' instead of './Advanced-Scene-Switcher/advanced-scene-switcher-1.32.6-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb'
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/14.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /home/aaron/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/Advanced-Scene-Switcher/advanced-scene-switcher-1.32.6-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb advanced-scene-switcher amd64 1.32.6 [14.2 MB]
(Reading database ... 568701 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../advanced-scene-switcher-1.32.6-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb ...
Unpacking advanced-scene-switcher (1.32.6) over (1.32.6) ...
Setting up advanced-scene-switcher (1.32.6) ...
N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/aaron/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/Advanced-Scene-Switcher/advanced-scene-switcher-1.32.6-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
aaron@aaron-M6800:~/Downloads/OBS/Plugins$ sudo apt reinstall ./Downstream-Keyer/downstream-keyer-0.4.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'downstream-keyer' instead of './Downstream-Keyer/downstream-keyer-0.4.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb'
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/61.8 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /home/aaron/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/Downstream-Keyer/downstream-keyer-0.4.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb downstream-keyer amd64 0.4.1 [61.8 kB]
(Reading database ... 568701 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../downstream-keyer-0.4.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb ...
Unpacking downstream-keyer (0.4.1) over (0.4.1) ...
Setting up downstream-keyer (0.4.1) ...
N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/aaron/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/Downstream-Keyer/downstream-keyer-0.4.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
aaron@aaron-M6800:~/Downloads/OBS/Plugins$ sudo apt reinstall ./Source-Defaults/source-defaults-1.2.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'source-defaults' instead of './Source-Defaults/source-defaults-1.2.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb'
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/11.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /home/aaron/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/Source-Defaults/source-defaults-1.2.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb source-defaults amd64 1.2.0 [11.1 kB]
(Reading database ... 568701 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../source-defaults-1.2.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb ...
Unpacking source-defaults (1.2.0) over (1.2.0) ...
Setting up source-defaults (1.2.0) ...
N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/aaron/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/Source-Defaults/source-defaults-1.2.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
aaron@aaron-M6800:~/Downloads/OBS/Plugins$ cd DistroAV_NDI
aaron@aaron-M6800:~/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/DistroAV_NDI$ sudo ./libndi-get.sh install
Temporary directory created at /tmp/ndidisk.W7zLbHa
/tmp/ndidisk.W7zLbHa /home/aaron/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/DistroAV_NDI
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 57.3M 100 57.3M 0 0 9767k 0 0:00:06 0:00:06 --:--:-- 9.8M
Download complete.
Uncompressing...
Install_NDI_SDK_v6_Linux.sh
Uncompression complete.
NDI SDK License Agreement
[EULA removed for length limit]
[NDI SDK for Linux/... removed for length limit, reproduced in following post]
Moving things to a folder with no space
Contents of /tmp/ndidisk.W7zLbHa/ndisdk/lib:
total 36
drwxrwxr-x 9 aaron aaron 4096 Aug 21 10:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 aaron aaron 4096 Aug 21 10:32 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 aaron aaron 4096 Jan 18 13:23 aarch64-rpi4-linux-gnueabi
drwxrwxr-x 2 aaron aaron 4096 Jan 18 13:23 arm-rpi1-linux-gnueabihf
drwxrwxr-x 2 aaron aaron 4096 Jan 18 13:23 arm-rpi2-linux-gnueabihf
drwxrwxr-x 2 aaron aaron 4096 Jan 18 13:23 arm-rpi3-linux-gnueabihf
drwxrwxr-x 2 aaron aaron 4096 Jan 18 13:23 arm-rpi4-linux-gnueabihf
drwxrwxr-x 2 aaron aaron 4096 Jan 18 13:23 i686-linux-gnu
drwxrwxr-x 2 aaron aaron 4096 Jan 18 13:23 x86_64-linux-gnu
Contents of /tmp/ndidisk.W7zLbHa/ndisdk/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:
total 26412
drwxrwxr-x 2 aaron aaron 4096 Jan 18 13:23 .
drwxrwxr-x 9 aaron aaron 4096 Aug 21 10:33 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 18 13:23 libndi.so -> libndi.so.6.2.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 18 13:23 libndi.so.6 -> libndi.so.6.2.1
-rwxrwxr-x 1 aaron aaron 27034016 Aug 21 10:24 libndi.so.6.2.1
/home/aaron/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/DistroAV_NDI
Copying the library files to the long-term location. You might be prompted for authentication.
libndi installed to /usr/local/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 18 13:23 /usr/local/lib/libndi.so -> libndi.so.6.2.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 May 5 2025 /usr/local/lib/libndi.so.5 -> /usr/local/lib/libndi.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 18 13:23 /usr/local/lib/libndi.so.6 -> libndi.so.6.2.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26706176 May 5 2025 /usr/local/lib/libndi.so.6.1.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27034016 Jan 18 13:23 /usr/local/lib/libndi.so.6.2.1
Adding backward compatibility tweaks for older plugins version to work with NDI v6
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/local/lib/libndi.so.5': File exists
aaron@aaron-M6800:~/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/DistroAV_NDI$ sudo apt reinstall ./distroav-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'distroav' instead of './distroav-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb'
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/116 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /home/aaron/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/DistroAV_NDI/distroav-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb distroav amd64 6.1.1 [116 kB]
(Reading database ... 568701 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../distroav-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb ...
Unpacking distroav (6.1.1) over (6.1.1) ...
Setting up distroav (6.1.1) ...
N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/aaron/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/DistroAV_NDI/distroav-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
aaron@aaron-M6800:~/Downloads/OBS/Plugins/DistroAV_NDI$
and OBS still does this:
Indeed, the plugins are not in their usual places, as if none of them are installed. At the time of this writing, those are all the latest versions.
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