How To Install libpipewire-0.3-common on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpipewire-0.3-common on Ubuntu.
What is libpipewire-0.3-common
libpipewire-0.3-common 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 is needed for the runtime libraries to display messages in languages other than English.
There are three methods to install libpipewire-0.3-common on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libpipewire-0.3-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libpipewire-0.3-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpipewire-0.3-common
Install libpipewire-0.3-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpipewire-0.3-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpipewire-0.3-common
Install libpipewire-0.3-common 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 libpipewire-0.3-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpipewire-0.3-common
How To Uninstall libpipewire-0.3-common on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libpipewire-0.3-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpipewire-0.3-common
Uninstall libpipewire-0.3-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpipewire-0.3-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpipewire-0.3-common
Remove libpipewire-0.3-common Configurations and Data
To remove libpipewire-0.3-common configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpipewire-0.3-common
Remove libpipewire-0.3-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpipewire-0.3-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpipewire-0.3-common
Dependencies
libpipewire-0.3-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpipewire-0.3-common package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.