---
title: Install pipewire on CentOS using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of pipewire for on CentOS - Pipewire server, plus
  wireplumber and pipewire-pulse
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/pipewire/centos
---

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# Install pipewire on **CentOS**

# pipewire

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/pipewire/centos#install)

#### Pipewire server, plus wireplumber and pipewire-pulse

PipeWire is a video and audio server that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It provides a low-latency, graph-based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both PulseAudio and JACK. PipeWire was designed with a powerful security model that makes interacting with audio and video devices from containerized applications easy. It offers:

* Capture and playback of audio and video with minimal latency.
* Real-time multimedia processing on audio and video.
* Multiprocess architecture to let applications share multimedia content.
* Seamless support for PulseAudio, JACK, ALSA, and GStreamer applications.
* Sandboxed applications support.

### Package name

* pipewire

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### License

* MIT

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### Last updated

* 13 May 2025 - latest/stable
* 5 May 2025 - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [github.com/canonical/pipewire-snap](https://github.com/canonical/pipewire-snap "https://github.com/canonical/pipewire-snap")
* [pipewire.org](https://pipewire.org/ "https://pipewire.org/")

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### Source code

* [gitlab.freedesktop.org](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire")

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## Enable snaps on CentOS and install pipewire

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

Snap is available for [CentOS 7.6+](https://snapcraft.io/install/pipewire/centos), and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6+, from the [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The EPEL repository can be added to your system with the following command:

```
sudo yum install epel-release
```

Snap can now be installed as follows:

```
sudo yum install snapd
```

Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:

```
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
```

To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`:

```
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
```

Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install pipewire

To install pipewire, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install pipewire
```

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