Public bug reported:
When installing the obs-studio package via apt, the VLC media player and
its plugins are pulled in as dependencies. However, OBS Studio does not
require VLC to function. The application launches and works correctly
without VLC installed, which indicates that this dependency is
incorrect.
Steps to reproduce:
1 Run: sudo apt install obs-studio
2 Notice that vlc and its libraries are installed along with OBS Studio.
Actual result:
OBS Studio is installed together with VLC and many of its dependencies
Expected result:
OBS Studio should be installed without VLC, since it does not depend on it. VLC
should be moved to Recommends at most, or removed completely from the
dependency list.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: obs-studio 30.0.2+dfsg-3build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.14.0-29.29~24.04.1-generic 6.14.8
Uname: Linux 6.14.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Sep 2 22:17:22 2025
InstallationDate: Installed on 2025-08-31 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64
(20250805.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/usr/bin/fish
TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: obs-studio
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: obs-studio (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug noble third-party-packages wayland-session
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Title:
Incorrect dependency in obs-studio package (unnecessary VLC
dependency)
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