How To Install libpipewire-0.3-modules 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-modules
on Ubuntu.
What is libpipewire-0.3-modules
libpipewire-0.3-modules 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 modules used by the PipeWire server and by clients, and should not normally be depended on directly. PipeWire clients should depend on the pipewire package instead.
There are three methods to install libpipewire-0.3-modules
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-modules 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-modules
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpipewire-0.3-modules
Install libpipewire-0.3-modules Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpipewire-0.3-modules
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpipewire-0.3-modules
Install libpipewire-0.3-modules 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-modules
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpipewire-0.3-modules
How To Uninstall libpipewire-0.3-modules on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libpipewire-0.3-modules
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpipewire-0.3-modules
Uninstall libpipewire-0.3-modules And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpipewire-0.3-modules
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpipewire-0.3-modules
Remove libpipewire-0.3-modules Configurations and Data
To remove libpipewire-0.3-modules
configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpipewire-0.3-modules
Remove libpipewire-0.3-modules configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpipewire-0.3-modules
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpipewire-0.3-modules
Dependencies
libpipewire-0.3-modules have the following dependencies:
- libavahi-client3
- libavahi-common3
- libc6
- libcanberra0
- libdbus-1-3
- libpipewire-0.3-0
- libpulse0
- libsndfile1
- libssl3
- libsystemd0
- libx11-6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpipewire-0.3-modules
package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.