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beastr45

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Registered: 2024-06-23

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I cant uninstall either pulseaudio or pipewire

My audio setup is really broken and buggy. I want to know if there is a way to reset the configuration as well as a guide to get things working canonically. If I try to uninstall either pipe-wire or pulse audio in order to replace one with the other I get package conflicts with random desktop apps which I don't know how to fix.

cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

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Re: I cant uninstall either pulseaudio or pipewire

welcome to circular dependency hell
you could solve it by recursively remove the dependants along
what will somewhat result similar what Linus got with PopOs when he executed --I-know-what-i-do or whatever that override was

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: I cant uninstall either pulseaudio or pipewire

My audio setup is really broken and buggy

In what way?

I want to know if there is a way to reset the configuration

Restore the backup you made before wrecking everything?

But seriously, it is very difficult to advise without knowing what exactly you have done.

a guide to get things working canonically

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire

If I try to uninstall either pipe-wire or pulse audio in order to replace one with the other I get package conflicts with random desktop apps which I don't know how to fix

It is highly unlikely you would want to run a desktop without a sound server but if you want to do that then try a simple window manager instead and build the desktop up from the individual components.

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mithrial

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Registered: 2017-03-05

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Re: I cant uninstall either pulseaudio or pipewire

Reinstalling won't solve anything because (typically) the configuration will stay untouched in your home directory.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: I cant uninstall either pulseaudio or pipewire

sudo dmesg | grep -E 'snd|sof'
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
aplay -lL
systemctl --user status pipewire{,-pulse} wireplumber
pactl list cards
pactl list sinks

in code tags and maybe verbatim and actual errors of "package conflicts with random apps"