How To Install pipewire on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire on Kali Linux.

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 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 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 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pipewire

How To Uninstall pipewire on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pipewire

Remove pipewire Configurations and Data

To remove pipewire configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• init-system-helpers
• libpipewire-0.3-modules
• pipewire-bin

References

• pipewire website

Summary

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