Pipewire-pulse installation problem

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I was trying to install pipewire but it seems like while trying to install pipewire-pulse it gives me this error message (I’m just going to copy paste what the console says as I don’t know how to make it look pretty in this format)

[vicente@vicentes-death-machine ~]$ sudo pacman -S pipewire-pulse
[sudo] password for vicente:
resolving dependencies…
looking for conflicting packages…
:: pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio? [y/N] y
:: pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio-bluetooth are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio-bluetooth? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio=14.2-3’ required by pulseaudio-equalizer
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio=14.2-3’ required by pulseaudio-jack
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio=14.2-3’ required by pulseaudio-lirc
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio=14.2-3’ required by pulseaudio-rtp
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio=14.2-3’ required by pulseaudio-zeroconf
[vicente@vicentes-death-machine ~]$

I don’t know what I’m suppose to do with this info as I recently changed to linux and I searched for my problem in other forums and there doesn’t seem to be any troubleshooting for this.

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When it asked me to remove pulseaudio and pulseaudio-bluetooth I tried by putting yes yes and no no but it gave me the same error message in case someone tells me to try that.

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Welcome to the forum! :slight_smile:

I would recommend the following… :arrow_down:

sudo pacman -R pulseaudio pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack pulseaudio-lirc pulseaudio-rtp pulseaudio-zeroconf pulseaudio-bluetooth
sudo pacman -S manjaro-pipewire
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Thanks for being polite!

Unfortunally it gives me a similar error message than the one before:

[vicente@vicentes-death-machine ~]$ sudo pacman -R pulseaudio pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack pulseaudio-lirc p
ulseaudio-rtp pulseaudio-zeroconf pulseaudio-bluetooth
sudo pacman -S manjaro-pipewire
checking dependencies…
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio-jack breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio-jack’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio-zeroconf breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio-zeroconf’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio-lirc breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio-lirc’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio-rtp breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio-rtp’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio-equalizer breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio-equalizer’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio-bluetooth breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio-bluetooth’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio’ required by plasma-pa
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio’ required by pulseaudio-alsa
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio’ required by pulseaudio-ctl
resolving dependencies…
looking for conflicting packages…
:: manjaro-pipewire and manjaro-pulse are in conflict. Remove manjaro-pulse? [y/N] y
:: pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio? [y/N] y
:: pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio-bluetooth are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio-bluetooth? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio=14.2-3’ required by pulseaudio-equalizer
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio=14.2-3’ required by pulseaudio-jack
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio=14.2-3’ required by pulseaudio-lirc
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio=14.2-3’ required by pulseaudio-rtp
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio=14.2-3’ required by pulseaudio-zeroconf
[vicente@vicentes-death-machine ~]$

I didn’t mention that I have Cadence installed (which is a jack audio manager) but it doesn’t seem to be up and running.

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I also tried to put the two line things separate just in case but it says this.

[vicente@vicentes-death-machine ~]$ sudo pacman -R pulseaudio pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack pulseaudio-lirc pulseaudio-rtp pulseaudio-zeroconf pulseaudio-bluetooth
[sudo] password for vicente:
checking dependencies…
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio-jack breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio-jack’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio-zeroconf breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio-zeroconf’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio-lirc breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio-lirc’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio-rtp breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio-rtp’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio-equalizer breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio-equalizer’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio-bluetooth breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio-bluetooth’ required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio’ required by plasma-pa
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio’ required by pulseaudio-alsa
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio’ required by pulseaudio-ctl
[vicente@vicentes-death-machine ~]$

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Just one question: According to Pamac, Pipewire (KDE here) is already installed. When and how will that replace PulseAudio then? Will this happen sometime by an update by itself? Reading about the problems people are having with Pipewire so far, I think I’ll wait for that time.

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Try the following… :arrow_down:

sudo pacman -Ru --nodeps pulseaudio pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack pulseaudio-lirc pulseaudio-rtp pulseaudio-zeroconf pulseaudio-bluetooth pulseaudio-pa pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-ctl manjaro-pulse
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I read it was supposed to make life easier but well, silly me.

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Thank you so much, this solved the problem.

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Don’t forget to install manjaro-pipewire, though. You still need that step too…: :arrow_down:

sudo pacman -S manjaro-pipewire

:wink:

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Just in case if other noobs see that by using “pactl info” (to see the current sound server) and it says PulseAudio instead of PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.26), you need to restart your computer.

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