How To Install pipewire-pulse on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire-pulse
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 Ubuntu 22.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, 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 Ubuntu 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire-pulse
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.