obs command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix obs command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

obs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: obs: command not found

Solutions to obs: command not found

How To Fix obs: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu obs is provided by obs-studio package.

obs-studio is:

OBS Studio is designed for efficiently recording and streaming live video content. It supports live RTP streaming to various streaming sites.

Other features include:

  • Encoding using H264 (x264) and AAC
  • Unlimited number of scenes and sources
  • File output to MP4 or FLV
  • GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming
  • Bilinear or lanczos3 resampling

Note that OBS Studio requires an OpenGL 3.2 compatible video card.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install obs-studio

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install obs-studio.

sudo apt -y install obs-studio

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install obs-studio

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix obs command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.