Yesterday by troubleshooting a HDMI audio issue on a laptop I was reinstalling Manjaro on, I had an issue. I don’t want support for that, I just want to let you know so you may have a look at it.
So I installed KDE, I switched from Pulse Audio to Pipewire by installing meta package manjaro-pipewire, it replaced all Pulse things, I rebooted, it worked. However when I tried to switch back to Pulse Audio, by installing meta package manjaro-pulse, there was a dependency issue and refused to install, if I recall correctly it was because of pulseaudio-bluetooth. I didn’t mark the exact issue but now that I remember that I wanted to bring the issue here so maybe you can see what’s wrong in the meta packages.
As said I don’t need support, just wanted to mention it on the forum so you’re aware of it.
$ pamac install manjaro-pulse
Preparing...
Synchronisiere Paketdatenbanken...
Choose optional dependencies for manjaro-pulse:
1: paprefs: Configuration dialog
2: pasystray: system tray application
3: pavucontrol-qt: A Qt volume control tool
4: pulseaudio-ctl: Control volume from the shell or mapped to keyboard shortcuts
5: pulseaudio-equalizer: Graphical equalizer
6: pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa: A 15-band equalizer
7: pulseaudio-jack: Jack support
8: pulseaudio-lirc: IR (lirc) support
9: pulseaudio-rtp: RTP and RAOP support
10: sof-firmware
Enter a selection (default=none):
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...
Error: Failed to prepare transaction:
could not satisfy dependencies:
- unable to satisfy dependency 'pulseaudio-bluetooth' required by manjaro-pulse
I think the problem is that pipewire-pulse provides pulseaudio-bluetooth which should be removed and replaced by pulse’s package with the same name.
Abhängigkeiten werden aufgelöst …
Nach in Konflikt stehenden Paketen wird gesucht …
:: manjaro-pulse und manjaro-pipewire stehen miteinander in Konflikt. manjaro-pipewire entfernen? [j/N] j
:: manjaro-pulse und pipewire-pulse stehen miteinander in Konflikt. pipewire-pulse entfernen? [j/N] j
Fehler: Vorgang konnte nicht vorbereitet werden (Kann Abhängigkeiten nicht erfüllen)
:: Unerfüllbare Abhängigkeit »pulseaudio«, benötigt von manjaro-pulse
:: Unerfüllbare Abhängigkeit »pulseaudio-bluetooth«, benötigt von manjaro-pulse
:: Entfernen von pipewire-pulse verletzt Abhängigkeit »pulseaudio«, benötigt von plasma-pa
:: Entfernen von pipewire-pulse verletzt Abhängigkeit »pulseaudio«, benötigt von pulseaudio-ctl
If installing manjaro-pulse + pulseaudio-bluetooth works, Is it possible to work around the metapackage by installing pulseaudio and selecting pulseaudio-bluetooth from optional dependencies ?
I suspect that manjaro-pulse might be failing due to pulseaudio-alsa dependency
before pulseaudio-bluetooth dependency
If pulseaudio is installed it does not ask user to install recommended dependency pulseaudio-alsa, package is installed automatically
IMO pulseaudio-alsa is not needed as a dependency for metapackage manjaro-pulse
If it’s not, then one might have the wrong package installed. If one is using PulseAudio, one needs pulseaudio-alsa. If one is using PipeWire, one needs pipewire-alsa.
Disclaimer: The manjaro-pulse and manjaro-pipwire meta packages are only provided as a convenience. Manual intervention is required. There’s no way around it, unfortunately. If they’re causing too much confusion and problems, they can be dropped.
