How To Install pipewire on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire on Debian 12.
What is pipewire
pipewire 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 metapackage makes PipeWire available for programs of the same architecture, and provides the systemd user service necessary to run pipewire on-demand.
There are three methods to install pipewire 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 pipewire 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pipewire
Install pipewire Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pipewire using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pipewire
Install pipewire 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 pipewire using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pipewire
How To Uninstall pipewire on Debian 12
To uninstall only the pipewire package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pipewire
Uninstall pipewire And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pipewire and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pipewire
Remove pipewire Configurations and Data
To remove pipewire configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pipewire
Remove pipewire configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pipewire configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pipewire
Dependencies
pipewire have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.