Garuda Assistant - Switching to PluseAudio fails

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Hi All,

New to Garuda so apologies if this isn't the place to report bugs. I had a poke around on GitLab and it seems that issues aren't actively tracked there.

While trying to debug a HDMI audio error, I found that trying to shift from pipewire to pulseaudio via Garuda Assistant fails due to a dependency issue.

Garuda Assistant attempts to run pacman -S pulseaudio-support, which gives:

:: pulseaudio-support and pipewire-support are in conflict. Remove pipewire-support? [y/N] y
:: pulseaudio and pipewire-pulse are in conflict. Remove pipewire-pulse? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'pulseaudio-bluetooth' required by pulseaudio-support

Digging in a bit further, it seems there's some roundabout dependencies (pulseaudio requires pulseaudio-bluetooth, but that conflicts with pipewire-support which hasn't been removed yet.

I was able to resolve the conflict by manually removing pipewire-support and installing pulseaudio-bluetooth.

I was then able to install the rest of the pulseaudio packages without error.

This may be an upstream dependency issue that's showing up in Garuda Assistant.

Other relevant info:
ISO: garuda-dr460nized-linux-zen210621

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Same here. I’m guessing Garuda Assistant isn’t capable of handling this circular-type of dependency issues.

Yep. Good old terminal. What will they think of next (rhetorical). kidding I had to do the same, since I wanted tried-and-true pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa for it’s superior plugins.

Pipewire-pulse does provide Bluetooth audio, and post-processing through a couple of utilities such as the easyeffects package, but my admittedly brief research down that rabbit-hole led me to believe the independently-offered presets are pretty sparse, according to the Github references. So I stuck with what I knew.

It’s pretty clear that KDE is moving to pipewire as default audio server over pulseaudio, but they do admit it isn’t quite ready for primetime. It will have superior handling over Pulseaudio and JACK when it is feature-complete. I reminds me somewhat of SystemD. :wink:

Replacing pipewire with pulseaudio with Octopi might resolve the conflict, as it can and does offer to do so from a terminal when something like this happens. I do not know. I do know the terminal works. :wink:

And I seem to recall the same happening while doing post-installation work after the base install of vanilla Arch a very short while before replacing it with the latest Garuda Barebones and Dr4gonized KDE editions, where it did factually happen to me as it happened to you.

I think your post is very relevant and should be pinned as a common solution to this common problem.

regards

EDIT: Oh yeah, and Welcome to Garuda Linux!

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