AudioService not working with Pipewire // Installing Ignis-GVC for Pipewire.

[Sarund9]

I am using pipewire and pipewire-pulse.

I installed Ignis on a VENV:

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

pip install git+https://github.com/ignis-sh/ignis.git

On doing:

from ignis.services.audio import AudioService

An Exception tells me to install ignis-gvc.
When building Ignis-GVC, it has a dependency on pulseaudio.

How do I install Gvc into the VENV?
How do I install Gvc to use with Pipewire?

[linkfrg]

When building Ignis-GVC, it has a dependency on pulseaudio.

Yes, but installing pipewire-pulse makes it's compatible with Pipewire.

How do I install Gvc into the VENV?

You can't, you should install it system-wide. See ignis-gvc's README for further details on installation.

[Sarund9]

Thanks for the quick reply!

My bad, I built ignis-gvc before and misread this as needing pulseaudio, not libpulse:

Executing subproject gvc 

gvc| Project name: gvc
gvc| Project version: undefined
gvc| C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 14.2.1 "cc (GCC) 14.2.1 20250405")
gvc| C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.44
gvc| Found pkg-config: YES (/usr/bin/pkg-config) 0.29.2
gvc| Build-time dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.84.0
gvc| Program /usr/bin/glib-mkenums found: YES (/usr/bin/glib-mkenums)
gvc| Dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.84.0 (cached)
gvc| Program /usr/bin/glib-mkenums found: YES (/usr/bin/glib-mkenums)
gvc| Run-time dependency gio-2.0 found: YES 2.84.0
gvc| Run-time dependency gobject-2.0 found: YES 2.84.0
gvc| Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (4.0.2)
gvc| Run-time dependency libpulse found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)

subprojects/gvc/meson.build:58:2: ERROR: Dependency "libpulse" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake

For some reason my libpulse.so did not have a .pc file in /usr/lib/pkgconfig.

If anyone else is on Void Linux, turns out I had to install pulseaudio-devel to get the files, which turns out it does not require pulseaudio.

[maddie-m]

I just am going to add my experience here - I found this thread from trying to install on Fedora (used Fedora Everything installer with, I believe, the Workstation preset, which installs GNOME, and installed Niri after through COPR). so hopefully this could be helpful to someone in the future looking for the same thing. l to me although I am not on Void Linux as I was stuck figuring out what needed installation on Fedora 42. Here is what I had to do to build ignis-gvc:

sudo dnf install pulseaudio-libs-devel

I also needed

sudo dnf install gobject-introspection-devel

For good measure, here are any potentially related packages I found on my system.

> sudo dnf list --installed | grep pipewire
pipewire.x86_64                                      1.4.8-1.fc42                        updates
pipewire-alsa.x86_64                                 1.4.8-1.fc42                        updates
pipewire-devel.x86_64                                1.4.8-1.fc42                        updates
pipewire-gstreamer.x86_64                            1.4.8-1.fc42                        updates
pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit.x86_64            1.4.8-1.fc42                        updates
pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-libs.x86_64       1.4.8-1.fc42                        updates
pipewire-libs.x86_64                                 1.4.8-1.fc42                        updates
pipewire-plugin-libcamera.x86_64                     1.4.8-1.fc42                        updates
pipewire-pulseaudio.x86_64                           1.4.8-1.fc42                        updates
pipewire-utils.x86_64                                1.4.8-1.fc42                        updates
qemu-audio-pipewire.x86_64                           2:9.2.4-2.fc42                      updates
vlc-plugin-pipewire.x86_64                           3-5.fc42                            fedora
> sudo dnf list --installed | grep audio
cirrus-audio-firmware.noarch                         20250808-1.fc42                     updates
intel-audio-firmware.noarch                          20250808-1.fc42                     updates
libspatialaudio.x86_64                               3.1-22.20200406gitd926a2e.fc42      fedora
pcaudiolib.x86_64                                    1.1-17.fc42                         fedora
pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit.x86_64            1.4.8-1.fc42                        updates
pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-libs.x86_64       1.4.8-1.fc42                        updates
pipewire-pulseaudio.x86_64                           1.4.8-1.fc42                        updates
portaudio.x86_64                                     19.7.0-1.fc42                       fedora
pulseaudio-libs.x86_64                               17.0-5.fc42                         fedora
pulseaudio-libs-devel.x86_64                         17.0-5.fc42                         fedora
pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64                         17.0-5.fc42                         fedora
pulseaudio-utils.x86_64                              17.0-5.fc42                         fedora
python3-pyaudio.x86_64                               0.2.13-6.fc42                       fedora
qemu-audio-alsa.x86_64                               2:9.2.4-2.fc42                      updates
qemu-audio-dbus.x86_64                               2:9.2.4-2.fc42                      updates
qemu-audio-jack.x86_64                               2:9.2.4-2.fc42                      updates
qemu-audio-oss.x86_64                                2:9.2.4-2.fc42                      updates
qemu-audio-pa.x86_64                                 2:9.2.4-2.fc42                      updates
qemu-audio-pipewire.x86_64                           2:9.2.4-2.fc42                      updates
qemu-audio-sdl.x86_64                                2:9.2.4-2.fc42                      updates
qemu-audio-spice.x86_64                              2:9.2.4-2.fc42                      updates
vlc-plugin-pulseaudio.x86_64                         1:3.0.21-24.fc42                    updates
webrtc-audio-processing.x86_64                       1.3-5.fc42                          fedora