How To Install pipewire on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 package contains the server and command-line utilities.
There are three methods to install pipewire
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pipewire
Remove pipewire Configurations and Data
To remove pipewire
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.