How To Install wireplumber on Debian 12

Learn how to install wireplumber on Debian 12 with this tutorial. wireplumber is modular session / policy manager for PipeWire

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireplumber on Debian 12.

What is wireplumber

wireplumber is:

WirePlumber is a modular session / policy manager for PipeWire and a GObject-based high-level library that wraps PipeWire’s API, providing convenience for writing the daemon’s modules as well as external tools for managing PipeWire.

This package contains the WirePlumber daemon and command-line utilities.

There are three methods to install wireplumber on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install wireplumber Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install wireplumber using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install wireplumber

Install wireplumber Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install wireplumber using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install wireplumber

Install wireplumber 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install wireplumber using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wireplumber

How To Uninstall wireplumber on Debian 12

To uninstall only the wireplumber package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wireplumber

Uninstall wireplumber And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wireplumber and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wireplumber

Remove wireplumber Configurations and Data

To remove wireplumber configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wireplumber

Remove wireplumber configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove wireplumber configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wireplumber

Dependencies

wireplumber have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireplumber package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.