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I'm trying to install Miraclecast on 16.04, but the installation isn't working (I barely know where to start). Somebody can explain how I could install Miraclecast?

This is the error:

./autogen.sh: Syntax error: newline unexpected
Eliah Kagan
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    What have you tried? Be specific. if you've used commands then edit your question with commands you used – Sumeet Deshmukh Apr 13 '17 at 03:02
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    I enter this site: "https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast" There I downloaded the file called "autogen.sh", saved in the / tmp folder. I opened Konsole in this folder and reading "readme.md" I used the ./autogen.sh command. Both root and normal user the error message is this: ricardo@ricardo-Aspire-E1-431:~$ sudo ./autogen.sh [sudo] senha para ricardo: ./autogen.sh: 8: ./autogen.sh: Syntax error: newline unexpected – Ricardo Tristão Apr 13 '17 at 16:28

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You should have systemd version >= 219 to build this. To check version of systemd, run systemd --version.

  1. Go to https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast.

  2. Download the entire source code, not just autogen.sh. You can do it by clicking the Clone or download button, and then Download as ZIP or directly at https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast/archive/master.zip.

  3. Unzip the folder to get folder miraclecast-master and run:

    cd miraclecast-master
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-dev-tools autoconf libtool libudev-dev libsystemd-dev glib-2.0 libperl-dev libgtk2.0-dev libreadline-dev
libtoolize; aclocal; autoconf
sudo ./autogen.sh

  4. Once ./autogen.sh is complete, run:

    sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
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  • I got an error (autoreconf not found) with './autogen.sh' and had to first do 'sudo apt-get install -y autoconf' to run the install. Still cannot get it to cast to the TV-Miracast dongle -- yet. – LinuxFerLife Nov 16 '17 at 16:30
  • Can you tell me where are you stuck now? – thomachan Nov 16 '17 at 16:31
  • It is not showing up on the TV yet, it seems to be connecting as the dongle LED flickers then goes solid. This is a dual boot with win8.1 and Miracast works when I boot to win so I know the dongle is OK. But Ubuntu is my main OS and do not want to have to drop back to win8 just to watch videos on the big screen. I plan on getting a projector and using an older laptop on our network (with Ubuntu of course), so need to get this to work with this laptop as I know it does OK with win. Then install Miraclecast on the old laptop. – LinuxFerLife Nov 17 '17 at 14:56
  • https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast/issues/4 – thomachan Nov 17 '17 at 15:06