Thanks to your heldp, with the help of the correct guide it seems I was able to install pipewire successflly. To apply it I had to reboot.
I assumed that once rebooted I should restart the pipewife daemon with the command as follows. Howerver it gave me errors: $ pipewire [E][00304.248813] mod.protocol-native | [module-protocol-: 731 lock_socket()] server 0x55cd2eef45e0: unable to lock lockfile '/run/user/1000/pipewire-0.lock': Resource temporarily unavailable (maybe another daemon is running) [E][00304.248890] pw.conf | [ conf.c: 594 load_module()] 0x55cd2eedc160: could not load mandatory module "libpipewire-module-protocol-native": Resource temporarily unavailable [E][00304.248930] default | [ pipewire.c: 125 main()] failed to create context: Resource temporarily unavailable It looks like the daemon could not be started because the pipewire daemon was aleady running and created a lock. Does a roboot start the daemon automatically? If the daemon is alreaduy running, how does one pipewife? -- Haines Brown