How To Install OBS Studio on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OBS Studio on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, OBS Studio (Open Broadcast Studio) is a free and open-source application for video recording and live streaming. With this tool, you can record your screen activity or record video from a webcam and any other sources.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of OBS Studio’s free and open-source software for video recording and live streaming on a Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) server.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver).
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install OBS Studio on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver

Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt-get commands in the terminal.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Installing OBS Studio on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

• Method 1. Install OBS Studio using PPA:

First, add the official OBS Studio PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install obs-studio

• Method 2. Install OBS Studio using Snap:

sudo apt install snapd

Install the OBS Studio snap package using the following command:

snap install obs-studio

Please note that to use OBS Studio in Ubuntu, you’ll need FFmpeg. If you haven’t installed FFMpeg, do it now. Run the following commands to install FFMpeg.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed OBS Studio. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing free and open-source software for video recording and live streaming. in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) systems. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official OBS Studio website.