[Solved] Tried to add pipewire and remove pulse - failed - solved

[urdrwho10]

I have Deb 12 KDE

From what I've read Pipewire and Wireplumber are supposed to be default in 12. Mine is still Pulseaudio.
I followed some online instructions to try and get Pipewire as default.

This command would not work

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sudo touch /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/with-pulseaudio

I receive this error

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cannot touch '/etc/pipewire/media-session.d/with-pulseaudio': No such file or directory

Since the touch is the second part of the directions, I cold get past it. The first operation removed Pulse and added Pipewire libraries. Which left me without any sound. Re-installed Pulse to get sound back.

Should I just be happy with Pulse
Should I try again and if so why can't I use touch?

[wizard10000]

Probably better to use Debian's official documentation instead of "some online instructions"

https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire

[arzgi]

I have Deb 12 KDE
Should I try again and if so why can't I use touch?

This means you have not some directories in the middle, an example: touch a/b/c/d

It would require all a,b,c and d would exists.

To your sound problems, check debian-wiki first.

[urdrwho10]

Thanks for the wiki but first thing to do on that wiki

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touch /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/with-pulseaudio

I get

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touch: cannot touch '/etc/pipewire/media-session.d/with-pulseaudio': No such file or directory

Because this is in the Etc folder, if I try to manually add these folders, I'm not allowed.

Thinking maybe I'll do this outside of the OS running. I'll do it from Mint as root.

Probably better to use Debian's official documentation instead of "some online instructions"

https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire

[Bloom]

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sudo mkdir -p /etc/pipewire/media-session.d
sudo touch /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/with-pulseaudio

[CwF]

I convert xfce's by installing 'pipewire-audo'
That's it, one step, works every time.
...and I've reverted. Pulseaudio is working much much better for me in xfce.
Pipewire introduced lots of extraneous glitches.

[sunrat]

Debian 12 KDE still has Pulseaudio as default. Working fine for me here.
You can switch to Pipewire as CwF said above, but there may be no benefits in doing so and several disadvantages. YMMV.

[arzgi]

I convert xfce's by installing 'pipewire-audo'
That's it, one step, works every time.
...and I've reverted. Pulseaudio is working much much better for me in xfce.
Pipewire introduced lots of extraneous glitches.

Same here, when using bluetooth-headphones, pipewire caused irritating clicks at least once in a minute. Tried to troubleshoot that many days, then remembered this did not happen with pulseaudio. Easy fix.