How To Install pipewire-tests on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire-tests on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is pipewire-tests
pipewire-tests is:
PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia pipelines. This includes:
- Making available sources of video (such as from a capture devices or application provided streams) and multiplexing this with clients.
- Accessing sources of video for consumption.
- Generating graphs for audio and video processing.
This package contains automated and manual tests and example programs.
There are three methods to install pipewire-tests on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pipewire-tests Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pipewire-tests using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pipewire-tests
Install pipewire-tests Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pipewire-tests using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pipewire-tests
Install pipewire-tests Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install pipewire-tests using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pipewire-tests
How To Uninstall pipewire-tests on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the pipewire-tests package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pipewire-tests
Uninstall pipewire-tests And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pipewire-tests and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pipewire-tests
Remove pipewire-tests Configurations and Data
To remove pipewire-tests configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pipewire-tests
Remove pipewire-tests configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pipewire-tests configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pipewire-tests
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire-tests package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
