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.
Note libplist-dev (version 2.0 or greater) is a new dependency (originally, libplist was bundled with UxPlay-1.2). Older Linux distributions may only supply libplist 1.x, which is too old. [Installing libplist-dev (with libplist3) from ubuntu 18.04 solves this problem on ubuntu 16.04.] If you cannot find a libplist-2.x package that installs on your distribution, you can get it at https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist and build it from source. _(You will need build tools autoconf, automake, libtool, and may need to also install some libpython*-dev package). By default, libplist installs in /usr/local/lib. If this is not in the library path (as in ubuntu), create a file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libplist.conf containing the text “/usr/local/lib”, and run “sudo ldconfig” to permanently add /usr/local/lib to the library path._
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).
+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 are: gstreamer-devel gstreamer-plugins-base-devel gstreamer-plugins-libav gstreamer-plugins-bad (+ gstreamer-plugins-vaapi for Intel graphics).
FreeBSD: (sudo pkg install) libplist gstreamer1, gstreamer1-libav, gstreamer1-plugins, gstreamer1-plugins-* (* = core, good, bad, x, gtk, gl, vulkan, pulse …), (+ gstreamer1-vaapi for Intel graphics). Either avahi-libdns or mDNSResponder must also be installed to provide the dns_sd library. OpenSSL is already installed as a System Library. “ZOOMFIX” is untested; don’t try to use it on FreeBSD unless you need it.