Pipewire destroyed

[wary bluff]

I installed pipewire-pulse and that deleted pipewire.. now when i try to uninstall that shit i need to remove dependencies (my whole system is a dependency) and i cant install pipewire because its incompatible with those packages.

and i have no audio now

im gonna try make pipewire pulse work since i cant get pipewire back

[polar kraken]

pacman -Qen will list all native explicitly installed packages, the reason my command didn't work is because it lists them with the version, e.g. instead of showing me: alsa-utilswhich is the package name it lists alsa-utils 1.2.9-1, and so the install tries to do pacman -S alsa-utils 1.2.9-1 instead of pacman -S alsa-utils, but I do think you should try to get a list of all explicitly installed packages (maybe make 2 lists, one of native and 1 for aur? or just one list using -Qe), remove the package you want to remove, with all it's dependencies, then reinstall all the packages that were explicitly installed previously? Just to me seems like the easiest way to go about it personally.

Just be aware that -Rnsc will remove with these flags:

REMOVE OPTIONS (APPLY TO -R)
       -c, --cascade
           Remove all target packages, as well as all packages that depend on one or more target packages. This operation is recursive and must be used with care, since it can remove many potentially needed packages.

       -n, --nosave
           Instructs pacman to ignore file backup designations. Normally, when a file is removed from the system, the database is checked to see if the file should be renamed with a .pacsave extension.

       -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.

Is this the package you installed?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pipewire-pulse-git?

[wary bluff]

yep

[polar kraken]

in that case you're gonna try and make pipewire-pulse-git work, not pipewire-pulse

[wary bluff]

actually it was this one https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/pipewire-pulse/

[polar kraken]

and you can't remove pipewire-pulse and install pipewire-pulse-git?

[wary bluff]

i dont have those

[polar kraken]

huh?

[wary bluff]

my bad its libpipewire and libpipewire-git causing the issues

[polar kraken]

do you have both installed?

[wary bluff]

i have libpipewire-git installed only

[polar kraken]

so you have pipewire-git, libpipewire-git, and pipewire-pulse installed, but you don't have pipewire-pulse-git installed?

if yes, just trying doing paru pipewire-pulse-gitand see what happens

[wary bluff]

yeah i didnt have pipewire-pulse-git will try that rn

[wary bluff]

it installed it, still no audio

it removed pipewire-pulse too

[polar kraken]

reboot

[wary bluff]

still no audio/mic

[polar kraken]

are you using wireplumber or something else behind the scenes? what does the systemctl output? what shows in configuration menus?

[wary bluff]

i have wireplumber installed

[polar kraken]

systemctl status --user wireplumber

[wary bluff]

Active

[polar kraken]

and do you have a gui for looking at it?

like in gnome I can go to settings and do this:

[wary bluff]

i dont have anything like this on kde for some reason

[polar kraken]

that is weird, I just booted KDE up:

[wary bluff]

i force removed all the pipewire stuff

my desktop is broken so im gonna reinstall

[polar kraken]

lol

did you get a list of explicit packages as I suggested?

[wary bluff]

no i just removed

[polar kraken]

if so you can probably just reinstall all of those (minus any pipewire related ones), then install regular pipewire

[wary bluff]

i reinstalled plasma-desktop in tty but it didnt fix

[polar kraken]

what's the current problem you're actually facing?

[wary bluff]

my desktop interface is gone

i can only access apps via alt+f2

super button does nothing\

cant alt tab

i think i broke lots of packagves

[polar kraken]

maybe reinstall them if you look at what packages you messed up using the pacman logs, just a shame you didn't get a -Qe list first 😦

[urban remnant]

add pipewire-audio to get rid of that git package