OBS doesn't launch when using checkinstall

[cg2121]

Expected Behavior

OBS should launch normally.

Current Behavior

OBS doesn't launch when using checkinstall for a second time.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install OBS via instructions on wiki (works first time)
2. Install again with same instructions
3. Launch OBS. It doesn't launch now.
4. Error:

obs: error while loading shared libraries: libobs-frontend-api.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Additional information

Using Ubuntu 19.10.
Works again when using "apt remove --purge obs-studio" and installing again.

[WizardCM]

Can confirm I was able to reproduce this in Ubuntu 19.04.

[TheDevMinerTV]

Same here, Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (Budgie).

[Decodetalkers]

Me too

[adremides]

Kubuntu 20.04 here. Same issue. Using sudo apt remove --purge obs-studio as suggested and installed from generated deb didn't work either.
Compiling it from a downloaded version instead a cloned one works for me (but it says the ugly 0.0.1 version in title).

[settermjd]

I had the same issue and was able to fix it by creating a symlink using sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libobs-frontend-api.so.0.0 /usr/lib/libobs-frontend-api.so.0.

[khaskelbergTAU]

I dont know if thats what you meant, simply adding the symlink didnt fix it. it would say for me "failed to find graphics device" if i tried to launch after that.
simply running checkinstall again fixed it.

[k-morozov]

After reinstalling OBS runs ok. (Ubuntu 20.04)
I run command from documentation twice:
sudo checkinstall --default --pkgname=obs-studio --fstrans=no --backup=no --pkgversion="$(date +%Y%m%d)-git" --deldoc=yes

[sharanya-mitra]

you can use auto remove it stop because it detecting as a malware in Linux

[RytoEX]

Please confirm if this is still an issue with OBS Studio 28.0.2 on currently supported versions of Ubuntu.

[sharanya-mitra]

I thing you it fixed now

[RytoEX]

Closing per above. If this is still an issue, please comment with information about your build environment, including:

• Distro name and version number
• checkinstall version
• /etc/checkinstallrc file contents