How To Install libspa-bluetooth on Debian 10

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libspa-bluetooth on Debian 10.

What is libspa-bluetooth

libspa-bluetooth 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 the bluetooth plugins.

There are three methods to install libspa-bluetooth on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libspa-bluetooth Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libspa-bluetooth

Install libspa-bluetooth Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libspa-bluetooth

Install libspa-bluetooth 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 libspa-bluetooth using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libspa-bluetooth

How To Uninstall libspa-bluetooth on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libspa-bluetooth package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libspa-bluetooth

Uninstall libspa-bluetooth And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libspa-bluetooth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libspa-bluetooth

Remove libspa-bluetooth Configurations and Data

To remove libspa-bluetooth configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libspa-bluetooth

Remove libspa-bluetooth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libspa-bluetooth

Dependencies

libspa-bluetooth have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libdbus-1-3
• libsbc1

References

• libspa-bluetooth website
• libspa-bluetooth on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libspa-bluetooth package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.