Re: OBS Studio package broken - unable to record

On 24/02/17 06:38 PM, Christian Marillat wrote:
> On 24 févr. 2017 21:12, Christian Weeks <cpw@???> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
> Hi,
>
> [...]
>
>> The file it's looking for is located at
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/obs-plugins/obs-ffmpeg/ffmpeg-mux, where it
>> seems to have been moved by debian/rules, and is the reason I'm
>> mailing this list. If I link back to the original location (see above)
>> I can now make recordings successfully. I suspect this is a slight bug
>> in upstream, since that is a binary helper, and it should be in the
>> binaries area, but for some reason is actually shipped in the shared
>> (data) area and only searched for there. It's probably also a bug that
>> it doesn't properly sanitize this particular input.
> Yes exactly.
>
> Could you try if a symlink solve this issue ?
>
> sudo mkdir /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-ffmpeg
> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/obs-plugins/obs-ffmpeg/ffmpeg-mux /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-ffmpeg/ffmpeg-mux
This is how I fixed the problem, yes.
> Christian
>