22.04 obs-studio does not launch out of the box with Wayland

Bug #1973340 reported by Aaron Whitehouse
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1960892: Starting "obs" creates a core dump. Edit Remove
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This bug affects 5 people
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obs-studio (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Trying to launch OBS studio with the package installed from apt gives an error on Wayland.

$ obs
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, xcb.

Aborted (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: obs-studio 27.2.3+dfsg1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-27.28-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri May 13 14:06:20 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-04-24 (18 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
SourcePackage: obs-studio
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse) wrote :
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Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse) wrote :

obs-studio installed via snap install obs-studio launches as expected.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in obs-studio (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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