How To Install libpipewire-0.3-modules on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpipewire-0.3-modules on Kali Linux.

What is libpipewire-0.3-modules

libpipewire-0.3-modules 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 modules used by the PipeWire server and by clients, and should not normally be depended on directly. PipeWire clients should depend on the pipewire package instead.

There are three methods to install libpipewire-0.3-modules on Kali Linux. 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-modules 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-modules using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install libpipewire-0.3-modules Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libpipewire-0.3-modules

Install libpipewire-0.3-modules Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install libpipewire-0.3-modules

How To Uninstall libpipewire-0.3-modules on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libpipewire-0.3-modules

Uninstall libpipewire-0.3-modules And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libpipewire-0.3-modules and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

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

Remove libpipewire-0.3-modules Configurations and Data

To remove libpipewire-0.3-modules configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

libpipewire-0.3-modules have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libdbus-1-3
• libpipewire-0.3-0
• libsystemd0

References

• libpipewire-0.3-modules website

Summary

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