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Upon install, this package installs /etc/ld.so.conf.d/pipewire-jack.conf to change the linker search path, so the linker will find and load PipeWire's library before original ones for dynamically linked applications.

If it does not work for you, please check if there is any file under /etc/ld.so.conf.d that has /usr/lib in it:

grep -Hi ^/usr/lib/$ /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*

And remove the offending line if possible.

Read the wiki page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PipeWire for more information.

Please comment if something goes wrong for you!

@frnx: Glad you figured it all out!

@hexchain You're totally right, it was marked as "installed as a dependency" and built 6 months ago, but nothing depends on it now. Thanks for the quick insights, everything works after removing it ;)

@frnx: Seems that libva1 is no longer a thing? It isn't even on AUR.

@hexchain: Ah got it, didn't think of that.

After some looking into, I was not able to make it work with either jack or jack2 installed b/c there's a file from the libva1 package (VA-API support library) that adds /usr/lib, will need to check if I break anything by removing it. I did not modify anything myself in /etc/ld.so.conf.d and thought I should be fine without actually checking that directory ;)

@frnx: It doesn't provide JACK tools (e.g. jack_lsp), so I don't think it really provides jack or jack2.

Wondering if there's a way to make this package "provide" jack so that installing either jack or jack2 is not needed when installing other packages (e.g. qjackctl) that depend on it?

I wonder if can make this a split package and add a pipewire-jack-replacement (better name suggestion is welcome) that also installs the headers and a pkgconf file so we can avoid non-pipewire jack libs altogether.

pipewire-jack.pc

prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=/usr
libdir=/usr/lib
includedir=/usr/include
server_libs=-L/usr/lib/pipewire-0.3/jack/ -ljackserver

Name: jack
Description: the Jack Audio Connection Kit: a low-latency synchronous callback-based media server
Version: 1.9.17
Libs: -L/usr/lib/pipewire-0.3/jack/ -ljack
Cflags: -I/usr/include

@themodernist: Without the dropin package, you can run pw-jack qjackctl.

@hexchain Right! Sorry to prolong this here, but how do I get qjacktl to use pipewire-jack manually? as of now its not doing it as it did during my previous installs?

EDIT - at the moment I have just removed libjack-defaults and replaced with ln -s with pipewire-03/jack

@themodernist: They don't hardcode the path, it is decided by ld.so. This package changes ld.so's search path so the PipeWire ones are used.