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egor_tensin

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Registered: 2025-07-21

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Package is installed, but not listed in pacman -Q

Hi, I've been combing my packages, and noticed that at least one package was installed, but not listed in the output of pacman -Q:

# pacman -Qi pipewire-session-manager | grep Install
Installed Size  : 1010.07 KiB
Install Date    : Fri 23 May 2025 05:05:32 CEST
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : Yes

# pacman -Qq | grep pipewire
libpipewire
pipewire
pipewire-audio
pipewire-pulse
qemu-audio-pipewire

I've never seen this before; have you guys seen something like that? I'm uncomfortable with the integrity of my package database seemingly compromised.

Last edited by egor_tensin (2025-08-21 09:37:05)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Package is installed, but not listed in pacman -Q

Please post the output of pacman -Qs pipewire .

Note that the -Q / --query options rarely need root rights and can run as normal user.

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egor_tensin

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Re: Package is installed, but not listed in pacman -Q

# pacman -Qs pipewire
local/libpipewire 1:1.4.7-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - client library
local/libwireplumber 0.5.10-1
    Session / policy manager implementation for PipeWire - client library
local/pipewire 1:1.4.7-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor
local/pipewire-audio 1:1.4.7-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - Audio support
local/pipewire-pulse 1:1.4.7-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - PulseAudio replacement
local/qemu-audio-pipewire 10.0.3-1
    QEMU PipeWire audio driver
local/wireplumber 0.5.10-1
    Session / policy manager implementation for PipeWire

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Package is installed, but not listed in pacman -Q

local/wireplumber 0.5.10-1
    Session / policy manager implementation for PipeWire

Check the full output of pacman -Qi wireplumber

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Allan

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Re: Package is installed, but not listed in pacman -Q

pacman -Qi pipewire-session-manager

I'm willing to bet one of those packages provides the pipewire-session-manager package.    For example.....   wireplumber.

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egor_tensin

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Registered: 2025-07-21

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Re: Package is installed, but not listed in pacman -Q

Thanks, you are correct, wireplumber does indeed provide pipewire-session-manager. The reason I was confused is that on another machine I actually have an actual pipewire-session-manager package (of size 0.00 B) installed, and I was confused as to why it was not installed on the machine in the topic. Weird how there's a dummy pipewire-session-manager package which is provided by on an older machine, and installed on another. Oh well, thanks.