Can't install Pulseaudio

Issues & Assistance
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If I try to install Pulseaudio from pacman give me this error:
could not satisfy dependencies:

  • removing gnome-bluetooth breaks dependency 'gnome-bluetooth' required by gnome-control-center,
  • if possible, remove gnome-control-center and retry
  • removing gnome-bluetooth breaks dependency 'gnome-bluetooth' required by gnome-shell,
  • if possible, remove gnome-shell and retry
  • removing gnome-bluetooth breaks dependency 'gnome-bluetooth' required by nautilus-bluetooth,
  • if possible, remove nautilus-bluetooth and retry

Even install it from Garuda Assistant doesn't work.

2

More Information are needed I guess.
Post your command + terminal output please.
Your on GNOME I guess? It uses pipewire by default

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Yeah, I'm on GNOME, and it use pipewire by default but i can't make work my volume keys.
The output is:

sudo pacman -S pulseaudio
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: pulseaudio and pipewire-pulse are in conflict. Remove pipewire-pulse? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pipewire-pulse breaks dependency 'pulseaudio-bluetooth' required by gnome-bluetooth
:: removing pipewire-pulse breaks dependency 'pipewire-pulse' required by pipewire-support
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Okay thats better.
The metapackage pipewire-support pulls in all the pipewire stuff. So try the following:

sudo pacman -Rns pipewire-support

I suspect it will fail however due to gnome-bluetooth, you might want to remove that too to be able to install pulseaudio. After that just install pulseaudio-support and itll pull everything needed.

Btw, for terminal output use "~~~" above and below the block to format is to a better readable format. :slight_smile:

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sudo pacman -R gnome-bluetooth

checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing gnome-bluetooth breaks dependency 'gnome-bluetooth' required by gnome-control-center
:: removing gnome-bluetooth breaks dependency 'gnome-bluetooth' required by gnome-shell
:: removing gnome-bluetooth breaks dependency 'gnome-bluetooth' required by nautilus-bluetooth

Yeah I tried to install pulseaudio-support but as you predicted gnome-bluetooth still give me problems

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Try installing both pulseaudio and pulseaudio-bluetooth at the same time. gnome-bluetooth needs this package and refuses to let it uninstall (for good reasons). So giving a replacement might work as pipewire is supposed to be a drop-in replacement from what I know.

sudo pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-bluetooth
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Ok, i removed pipewire-support to replace pipewire with pulseaudio; thank you very much!
But my volume keys still don't work, any advice for that?

8

No ok, just needed to reboot.
Thanks again, you guys of the Garuda teams are awesome!

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