How To Install libpipewire-0.3-common on Debian 12

Learn how to install libpipewire-0.3-common on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libpipewire-0.3-common is libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - common files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpipewire-0.3-common on Debian 12.

What is libpipewire-0.3-common

libpipewire-0.3-common 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 is needed for the runtime libraries to display messages in languages other than English.

There are three methods to install libpipewire-0.3-common 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 libpipewire-0.3-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libpipewire-0.3-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libpipewire-0.3-common

Install libpipewire-0.3-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libpipewire-0.3-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libpipewire-0.3-common

Install libpipewire-0.3-common 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 libpipewire-0.3-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libpipewire-0.3-common

How To Uninstall libpipewire-0.3-common on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libpipewire-0.3-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libpipewire-0.3-common

Uninstall libpipewire-0.3-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libpipewire-0.3-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpipewire-0.3-common

Remove libpipewire-0.3-common Configurations and Data

To remove libpipewire-0.3-common configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libpipewire-0.3-common

Remove libpipewire-0.3-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libpipewire-0.3-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpipewire-0.3-common

Dependencies

libpipewire-0.3-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpipewire-0.3-common package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.