How To Install wireplumber 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 wireplumber on Ubuntu.
What is wireplumber
wireplumber is:
WirePlumber is a modular session / policy manager for PipeWire and a GObject-based high-level library that wraps PipeWire’s API, providing convenience for writing the daemon’s modules as well as external tools for managing PipeWire.
This package contains the WirePlumber daemon and command-line utilities.
There are three methods to install wireplumber 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 wireplumber Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wireplumber using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wireplumber
Install wireplumber Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wireplumber using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wireplumber
Install wireplumber 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 wireplumber using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wireplumber
How To Uninstall wireplumber on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the wireplumber package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wireplumber
Uninstall wireplumber And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wireplumber and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wireplumber
Remove wireplumber Configurations and Data
To remove wireplumber configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wireplumber
Remove wireplumber configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wireplumber configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wireplumber
Dependencies
wireplumber have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireplumber package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.