How To Install pipewire-audio-client-libraries on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire-audio-client-libraries on Kali Linux. pipewire-audio-client-libraries is PipeWire multimedia server - audio client libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire-audio-client-libraries on Kali Linux.

What is pipewire-audio-client-libraries

pipewire-audio-client-libraries 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 client libraries allowing programs designed for the ALSA, JACK and PulseAudio APIs to use a PipeWire server for audio playback and recording. They are not used by default, and are currently considered to be experimental.

There are three methods to install pipewire-audio-client-libraries 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 pipewire-audio-client-libraries Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pipewire-audio-client-libraries using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pipewire-audio-client-libraries

Install pipewire-audio-client-libraries Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pipewire-audio-client-libraries using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pipewire-audio-client-libraries

Install pipewire-audio-client-libraries 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 pipewire-audio-client-libraries using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pipewire-audio-client-libraries

How To Uninstall pipewire-audio-client-libraries on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the pipewire-audio-client-libraries package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pipewire-audio-client-libraries

Uninstall pipewire-audio-client-libraries And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pipewire-audio-client-libraries and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pipewire-audio-client-libraries

Remove pipewire-audio-client-libraries Configurations and Data

To remove pipewire-audio-client-libraries configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pipewire-audio-client-libraries

Remove pipewire-audio-client-libraries configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pipewire-audio-client-libraries configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pipewire-audio-client-libraries

Dependencies

pipewire-audio-client-libraries have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire-audio-client-libraries package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.