(Instructions for Debian/Ubuntu; adapt these for other Linuxes; for macOS, see below).
Make sure that your distribution provides OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later, and libplist 2.0 or later. (This means Debian 10 “Buster”, Ubuntu 18.04 or later.) If it does not, you may need to build and install these from source (see below).
-You need a C/C++ compiler (e.g. g++) with the standard development libraries installed. Make sure that cmake>=3.4.1 and pkg-config are also installed: “sudo apt-get install cmake pkg-config”. In a terminal window, change directories to the source directory of the downloaded source code (“UxPlay-master” for zipfile downloads, “UxPlay” for “git clone” downloads), then do
+You need a C/C++ compiler (e.g. g++) with the standard development libraries installed. Make sure that cmake>=3.4.1 and pkg-config are also installed: “sudo apt-get install cmake pkg-config”. In a terminal window, change directories to the source directory of the downloaded source code (“UxPlay-”*“,”*" = “master” or the release tag for zipfile downloads, “UxPlay” for “git clone” downloads), then do
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libplist-dev (unless you need to build OpenSSL and libplist from source).sudo apt-get install libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-badIf you intend to modify the code, use a separate “build” directory: replace “cmake [ ] .” by “mkdir build ; cd build ; cmake [ ] ..”; you can then clean the build directory with “rm -rf build/*” (run from within the UxPlay source directory) without affecting the source directories which contain your modifications.
The above script installs the executable file “uxplay” to /usr/local/bin, (and installs a manpage to somewhere like /usr/local/share/man/man1 and README files to somewhere like /usr/local/share/doc/uxplay). It can also be found in the build directory after the build processs.
Finally, run uxplay in a terminal window. If it is not seen by the iOS client’s drop-down “Screen Mirroring” panel, check that your DNS-SD server (usually avahi-daemon) is running: do this in a terminal window with systemctl status avahi-daemon. (If this shows the avahi-daemon is not running, control it with sudo systemctl [start,stop,enable,disable] avahi-daemon (or avahi-daemon.service). If UxPlay is seen, but the client fails to connect when it is selected, there may be a firewall on the server that prevents UxPlay from receiving client connection requests unless some network ports are opened. See Troubleshooting below for help with this or other problems. See Usage for run-time options.
Finally, run uxplay in a terminal window. If it is not seen by the iOS client’s drop-down “Screen Mirroring” panel, check that your DNS-SD server (usually avahi-daemon) is running: do this in a terminal window with systemctl status avahi-daemon. If this shows the avahi-daemon is not running, control it with sudo systemctl [start,stop,enable,disable] avahi-daemon (or avahi-daemon.service). If UxPlay is seen, but the client fails to connect when it is selected, there may be a firewall on the server that prevents UxPlay from receiving client connection requests unless some network ports are opened. See Troubleshooting below for help with this or other problems. See Usage for run-time options.
Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS (now continued as Rocky Linux or Alma Linux): (sudo yum install) openssl-devel libplist-devel avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel (some from the “PowerTools” add-on repository) (+libX11-devel for ZOOMFIX). The required GStreamer packages (some from rpmfusion.org) are: gstreamer1-devel gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel gstreamer1-libav gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free ( + gstreamer1-vaapi for intel graphics).
OpenSUSE: (sudo zypper install) libopenssl-devel libplist-devel avahi-compat-mDNSResponder-devel (+ libX11-devel for ZOOMFIX). The required GStreamer packages (you may need to use versions from Packman) are: gstreamer-devel gstreamer-plugins-base-devel gstreamer-plugins-libav gstreamer-plugins-bad (+ gstreamer-plugins-vaapi for Intel graphics).