How To Install pipewire-bin 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 pipewire-bin on Ubuntu.

What is `pipewire-bin`

pipewire-bin 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, and should not normally be depended on directly. PipeWire clients should depend on the pipewire package instead.

There are three methods to install pipewire-bin 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 pipewire-bin 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-bin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pipewire-bin

Install pipewire-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pipewire-bin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pipewire-bin

Install pipewire-bin 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-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pipewire-bin

How To Uninstall pipewire-bin on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the pipewire-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pipewire-bin

Uninstall pipewire-bin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pipewire-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pipewire-bin

Remove pipewire-bin Configurations and Data

To remove pipewire-bin configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pipewire-bin

Remove pipewire-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pipewire-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pipewire-bin

Dependencies

pipewire-bin have the following dependencies:

References

pipewire-bin website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire-bin package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.