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:

References

libpipewire-0.3-modules website

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.