Installation

Table of Contents

• Requirements
  • Arch/Manjaro
  • Ubuntu (apt based)
  • Fedora
• Installation
  • Arch
  • Pypi install
  • Manual/Git install
  • Manual nightly installation
  • Nightly download and update script
• Uninstall

Installing Dependencies

Dependencies

• pip
• libappindicator3
• gobject-introspection-1.0
• libpulse

Python dependencies

Pip will automatically install these dependencies for you

• pulsectl
• setuptools
• pygobject

Optional dependencies

• noise-suppression-for-voice (optional, but noise reduction will not work)
• swh-plugins (optional, but equalizers will not work)
• pulse-vumeter (optional, but volume meters will not work)

noise-suppression-for-voice has to be installed manually in most systems, there's a great tutorial on how to do it in the wiki page

pulse-vumeter tutorial on README

Arch/Manjaro

All dependencies are pulled when downloading from the AUR

Ubuntu/Linux Mint (apt based)

noise-suppression-for-voice and pulse-vumeter must be built from source

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pip swh-plugins libgirepository1.0-dev libpulse-dev libappindicator3-dev

In some newer distrobutions you may have to install this package (#66):

sudo apt install gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1

Fedora

pulse-vumeter must be built from source

sudo dnf update
sudo dnf copr enable -y lkiesow/noise-suppression-for-voice
sudo dnf install -y ladspa-realtime-noise-suppression-plugin python3-pip ladspa-swh-plugins gobject-introspection-devel libappindicator-gtk3

If you're using pulseaudio (pipewire users don't need to install this) you need to install pulseaudio-utils:

sudo dnf install pulseaudio-utils

Installation

Arch/Manjaro

Two packages are available in the AUR pulsemeeter-git and pulsemeeter.

Any distro

Pypi

A package is available for it in pypi

sudo pip install pulsemeeter

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/theRealCarneiro/pulsemeeter.git
cd pulsemeeter
sudo pip install .

Build from nightly source

- Warning: These are development versions and may include bugs!

git clone https://github.com/theRealCarneiro/pulsemeeter.git
cd pulsemeeter
git checkout nightly
sudo pip install .

Nightly installation/update script

- Warning: These are development versions and may include bugs!

You can use this script to easily maintain the nightly version. Fl1tzi/pulsemeeter-nightly-script.

You should not execute any file coming from curl blind without checking if it is coming from a genuine source and without knowing what the script does (downloading before executing would be the best)! Check out the source with this command:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Fl1tzi/pulsemeeter-nightly-script/main/script.sh | less

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Install/Update:

bash -c '. <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Fl1tzi/pulsemeeter-nightly-script/main/script.sh)'

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Installing/Updating without sudo

bash -c '. <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Fl1tzi/pulsemeeter-nightly-script/main/script.sh) no-sudo'

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Delete cache:

bash -c '. <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Fl1tzi/pulsemeeter-nightly-script/main/script.sh) delete-cache'

Uninstall

sudo pip uninstall pulsemeeter