I understand that, it’s definitely more of a headache than having a native package, but it is the next best thing you can do aside from waiting for the dev or someone else to package it for your distro of choice (you might be more lucky if you’re on an Arch based system, I’m sure an AUR package will be made if it hasn’t been done already).
The distrobox setup itself isn’t really that crazy either, once you have everything ready you’ll be able to run OBS as if it was installed on your host system since you can export the programs in your containers to have a desktop entry in your DE.
Now I was trying to get all that up and running, but I’m facing issues in the installation of the plugin and I don’t know what’s causing that exactly, it may be a mismatch in the distro I chose and which one the package was actually made for, I’ll report back if I find a solution, in the meantime here’s what I did:
<span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">## Creating the container
</span><span style="color:#323232;">distrobox create
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> --image quay.io/toolbx-images/ubuntu-toolbox:latest
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> --name toolbox-ubuntu
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> --home ~/.local/share/box-homes/Toolbox-Ubuntu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">distrobox enter toolbox-ubuntu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">## Installing OBS Studio
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt update </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">&</span><span style="color:#323232;">amp;</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">&</span><span style="color:#323232;">amp</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">; </span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt upgrade
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt install obs-studio
</span><span style="color:#323232;">qtwayland5 </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># to be able to launch OBS on my KDE Wayland
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">## Trying to install the plugin
</span><span style="color:#62a35c;">cd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">curl -O https://github.com/occ-ai/obs-localvocal/releases/download/0.0.5/obs-localvocal-0.0.5-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt install ./obs-localvocal-0.0.5-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># gives error, maybe not compatible with latest Ubuntu?
</span>