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Hello everyone! I thought I dropped this comment here, but here I go again.

TL;DR: the official OBS Studio package includes the plugin, no need for this package. See below for removal procedure. After some time, package disappears.

Long version:

This package is now not needed anymore since: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/obs-studio/-/commit/4dcec767563d86b5fa826a63fa8baecaed0bc6d4

The plugin is built and bundled together with the official obs-studio package now. Thus, you can safely remove this package and update.

The steps are as follows:

1. Ensure that obs-studio is installed explicitly: sudo pacman -D --asexplicit obs-studio
2. Remove the plugin: sudo pacman -Rcs obs-plugin-browser
3. Upgrade, this should now upgrade obs-studio: sudo pacman -Syu

I plan after some time to mark the package for deletion and remove it from AUR since it is unnecessary.

Wow, didn't know! Thank you.

Hello everyone! I thought I dropped this comment here, but here I go again.

TL;DR: the official OBS Studio package includes the plugin, no need for this package. See below for removal procedure. After some time, package disappears.

Long version:

This package is now not needed anymore since: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/obs-studio/-/commit/4dcec767563d86b5fa826a63fa8baecaed0bc6d4

The plugin is built and bundled together with the official obs-studio package now. Thus, you can safely remove this package and update.

The steps are as follows:

1. Ensure that obs-studio is installed explicitly: sudo pacman -D --asexplicit obs-studio
2. Remove the plugin: sudo pacman -Rcs obs-plugin-browser
3. Upgrade, this should now upgrade obs-studio: sudo pacman -Syu

I plan after some time to mark the package for deletion and remove it from AUR since it is unnecessary.

I'm having the reverse issue on a computer I have, where obs-studio is trying to remove the files owned by obs-plugin-browser. On another computer with Arch, I installed obs-studio from pacman and it contains the browser source which is probably causing the errors with obs-studio-browser.

After yay -S --clean package has been rebuilt, but there is the same error from pacman.

Unable to install:

 -> obs-plugin-browser-2.26.1-1 already made -- skipping build
==> Making package: obs-plugin-browser 2.26.1-1 (Sat 25 Apr 2026 13:53:15 MSK)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Sources are ready.
loading packages...
warning: obs-plugin-browser-debug-2.26.1-1 is up to date -- skipping
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)         New Version  Net Change

obs-plugin-browser  2.26.1-1     297.59 MiB

Total Installed Size:  297.59 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                                                [#######################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                                              [#######################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                                                   [#######################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                                             [#######################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/lib/obs-plugins/obs-browser-page exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/lib/obs-plugins/obs-browser.so exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-browser/error.html exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-browser/locale/af-ZA.ini exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-browser/locale/ar-SA.ini exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-browser/locale/az-AZ.ini exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-browser/locale/ba-RU.ini exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)

...

obs-plugin-browser: /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-browser/locale/tr-TR.ini exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-browser/locale/tt-RU.ini exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-browser/locale/ug-CN.ini exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-browser/locale/uk-UA.ini exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-browser/locale/ur-PK.ini exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-browser/locale/vi-VN.ini exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-browser/locale/zh-CN.ini exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
obs-plugin-browser: /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-browser/locale/zh-TW.ini exists in filesystem (owned by obs-studio)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
 -> error installing: [/home/alex/.cache/yay/obs-plugin-browser/obs-plugin-browser-2.26.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /home/alex/.cache/yay/obs-plugin-browser/obs-plugin-browser-debug-2.26.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst] - exit status 1