linux.md

On Linux

Install

Scrcpy is packaged in several distributions and package managers:

• Debian/Ubuntu: apt install scrcpy
• Arch Linux: pacman -S scrcpy
• Fedora: dnf copr enable zeno/scrcpy && dnf install scrcpy
• Gentoo: emerge scrcpy
• Snap: snap install scrcpy
• … (see repology)

Latest version

However, the packaged version is not always the latest release. To install the latest release from master, follow this simplified process.

First, you need to install the required packages:

# for Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt install ffmpeg libsdl2-2.0-0 adb wget \
                 gcc git pkg-config meson ninja-build libsdl2-dev \
                 libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev \
                 libswresample-dev libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev

Then clone the repo and execute the installation script (source):

git clone https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
cd scrcpy
./install_release.sh

When a new release is out, update the repo and reinstall:

git pull
./install_release.sh

To uninstall:

sudo ninja -Cbuild-auto uninstall

Note that this simplified process only works for released versions (it downloads a prebuilt server binary), so for example you can't use it for testing the development branch (dev).

See build.md to build and install the app manually.

Run

Make sure that your device meets the prerequisites.

Once installed, run from a terminal:

scrcpy

or with arguments (here to disable audio and record to file.mkv):

scrcpy --no-audio --record=file.mkv

Documentation for command line arguments is available:

• man scrcpy
• scrcpy --help
• on github