How To Install pipewire on CentOS 8

pipewire is Media Sharing Server Media Sharing Server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire on CentOS 8.

What is pipewire

PipeWire is a multimedia server for Linux and other Unix like operating systems. pipewire 0.3.6 1.el8 x86_64 108 k pipewire-0.3.6-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Media Sharing Server https MIT PipeWire is a multimedia server for Linux and other Unix like operating systems.

We can use yum or dnf to install pipewire on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pipewire.

Install pipewire on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install pipewire using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pipewire

Install pipewire on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install pipewire using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pipewire

How To Uninstall pipewire on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove pipewire

pipewire Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/pipewire
/etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf
/usr/bin/pipewire
/usr/bin/pipewire-media-session
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/de847097c4815b9467181c22cec52af79a3b97
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/70da856888d36ba6f7a4dc07e24fa02769b512
/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pipewire.socket
/usr/share/doc/pipewire
/usr/share/doc/pipewire/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/pipewire
/usr/share/licenses/pipewire/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/pipewire/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/pipewire.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/pipewire.conf.5.gz
/etc/pipewire
/etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf
/usr/bin/pipewire
/usr/bin/pipewire-media-session
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/3805cb408e788e27ac674f7c02dc597a82ebb8
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/824086bf2672cf7513c74df1acc6d49316de8f
/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pipewire.socket
/usr/share/doc/pipewire
/usr/share/doc/pipewire/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/pipewire
/usr/share/licenses/pipewire/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/pipewire/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/pipewire.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/pipewire.conf.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.