Pipewire pulseaudio emulation without pulseaudio installed (works)
by adcdam from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5FRQT)
I did this:
i downloaded the binaries of package pipewire-0.3.24-1.fc33.x86_64.rpm , pipewire-alsa-0.3.24-1.fc33.x86_64.rpm, pipewire-libs-0.3.24-1.fc33.x86_64.rpm, pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.24-1.fc33.x86_64.rpm , pipewire-utils-0.3.24-1.fc33.x86_64.rpm, systemd-libs-246.6-3.fc33.x86_64.rpm from fedora using this https://pkgs.org/
i converted to tgz format using rpm2tgz
first i installed all packages but without systemd libs
pipewire-pulseadio failed at first then i copied libsystemd.so.0 to /usr/lib64/pipewire-0.3/
and pipewire with pulseaudio emulation now works without having pulseaudio installed in Slackware.


i downloaded the binaries of package pipewire-0.3.24-1.fc33.x86_64.rpm , pipewire-alsa-0.3.24-1.fc33.x86_64.rpm, pipewire-libs-0.3.24-1.fc33.x86_64.rpm, pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.24-1.fc33.x86_64.rpm , pipewire-utils-0.3.24-1.fc33.x86_64.rpm, systemd-libs-246.6-3.fc33.x86_64.rpm from fedora using this https://pkgs.org/
i converted to tgz format using rpm2tgz
first i installed all packages but without systemd libs
pipewire-pulseadio failed at first then i copied libsystemd.so.0 to /usr/lib64/pipewire-0.3/
and pipewire with pulseaudio emulation now works without having pulseaudio installed in Slackware.