Bart Massey 2022-01

This shell script's primary function is to cleanly install and set up current Debian unstable PipeWire (tested with 0.3.42) and associated utilities on a box running Debian Linux Bullseye. If the box is also running PulseAudio that will be disabled (but not uninstalled in the process).

If you are trying to clean up a broken audio install, and PulseAudio and/or PipeWire are installed, and you are very brave or very foolish, you can try the cleanup instructions here to get things going again.

sh pipewire-mode.sh install-pipewire

You will also want to make sure that any PulseAudio client.conf files have autospawn=no in them. On my box, I had to fix /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/01-enable-autospawn.conf. Spawning is supposed to be under the control of systemd, but apparently not so much.

A variety of commands are available:

• install-pipewire: Installs and enables PipeWire, disabling PulseAudio if present.

• enable-pipewire: Enables PipeWire, disabling PulseAudio if present.

• enable-pulseaudio: Enables PulseAudio, disabling Pipewire if present.

• restart-pipewire: Stops PipeWire and restarts it. (Assumes PipeWire was running before.)

There are also some other internal commands.

This work is made available under the "MIT License". Please see the file LICENSE in this distribution for license terms.