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Skimpa

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Registered: 2025-09-03

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pipewire and pulseaudio

I have installed both pipewire and pulseaudio, and i realise that it was a terrible thing to do since they conflict with eachother. I tried to disable pipewire and reinstall pulseaudio since when i installed pipewire it removed pulseaudio but not its dependencies which caused me issues, and when I tried to reinstall pulseaudio i get this error failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pipewire-pulse breaks dependency 'pipewire-pulse' required by pulse-native-provider. Can someone help me pls. Thanks

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: pipewire and pulseaudio

Please provide actual commands rather than vague descriptions.

Have you seen https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire?

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Jin, Jîyan, Azadî

switcher

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Registered: 2025-07-20

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Re: pipewire and pulseaudio

You can use pacman -Rs <package>
-s, --recursive
           Remove each target specified including all of their dependencies, provided that (A) they are not required by other packages; and (B) they were not explicitly
           installed by the user. This operation is recursive and analogous to a backwards --sync operation, and it helps keep a clean system without orphans. If you
           want to omit condition (B), pass this option twice.
You can removing one of the package and its dependencies, both pipewire and pulseaudio is a audio servers.
Pipewire is more recent than pulseaudio, so you can just install pipewire and wireplumber (session manager) and it will work.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire