Dependency hell trying to install PipeWire and PulseAudio together

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I need to have both PW and PA together, but installing pipewire-pulseaudio stops me from installing pulseaudio

sudo dnf install pulseaudio
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: problem with installed package
  - installed package pipewire-pulseaudio-1.6.8-1.fc44.x86_64 conflicts with pulseaudio provided by pulseaudio-17.0-9.fc44.x86_64 from fedora
  - installed package pipewire-pulseaudio-1.6.8-1.fc44.x86_64 conflicts with pulseaudio-daemon provided by pulseaudio-17.0-9.fc44.x86_64 from fedora
  - package pipewire-pulseaudio-1.6.2-1.fc44.x86_64 from fedora conflicts with pulseaudio provided by pulseaudio-17.0-9.fc44.x86_64 from fedora
  - package pipewire-pulseaudio-1.6.2-1.fc44.x86_64 from fedora conflicts with pulseaudio-daemon provided by pulseaudio-17.0-9.fc44.x86_64 from fedora
  - package pulseaudio-17.0-9.fc44.x86_64 from fedora conflicts with pulseaudio-daemon provided by pipewire-pulseaudio-1.6.8-1.fc44.x86_64 from updates
  - conflicting requests
You can try to add to command line:
  --allowerasing to allow removing of installed packages to resolve problems
  --skip-broken to skip uninstallable packages

What do I do about this?

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You do not need to install pulseaudio, pipewire includes a pulseaudio API.

Apps that use the pulseaudio API should just work.

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I guess you need to make a choice: Either use pipewire or use pulseaudio.

pipewire-pulseaudio is a plugin replacement for pulseaudio which makes it possible for apps needing pulseaudio to use pipewire through pipewire-pulseaudio without madifying the apps themselves.

Try running a google search using the string “pipewire vs pulseaudio” for more details.