How To Install pipewire-pulse on Debian 12

Learn how to install pipewire-pulse on Debian 12 with this tutorial. pipewire-pulse is PipeWire PulseAudio daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire-pulse on Debian 12.

What is pipewire-pulse

pipewire-pulse 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 PulseAudio replacement daemon.

There are three methods to install pipewire-pulse 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-pulse 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-pulse using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pipewire-pulse

Install pipewire-pulse Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pipewire-pulse

Install pipewire-pulse 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-pulse using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pipewire-pulse

How To Uninstall pipewire-pulse on Debian 12

To uninstall only the pipewire-pulse package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pipewire-pulse

Uninstall pipewire-pulse And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pipewire-pulse and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pipewire-pulse

Remove pipewire-pulse Configurations and Data

To remove pipewire-pulse configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pipewire-pulse

Remove pipewire-pulse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pipewire-pulse

Dependencies

pipewire-pulse have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire-pulse package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.