SoundWire Server Install Instructions for Linux
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System Setup:

- Open firewall ports 59010 & 59011 UDP. You may do this from the GUI using
  firewall-config or a similar utility (install it using your package manager
  if necessary).

- Install Pulse Audio Volume Control (pavucontrol) using your package manager.
  From the command line use "sudo apt-get install pavucontrol" on Debian/Ubuntu
  or "sudo dnf install pavucontrol" on Red Hat/Fedora. You may also do this 
  from the GUI using "Software" or a similar utility.

- Install the portaudio package using your package manager, or from
  http://www.portaudio.com/download.html
  If your Linux distribution has the libportaudio2 package it will work
  as well. Ensure that only one version of PortAudio is installed on your
  system (if necessary remove packages using your package manager).

- SoundWire Server version 3.0 and later uses Qt5. You may need to install some
  Qt5 libraries, in particular the Qt5Widgets library and its dependencies. 
  On Debian/Ubuntu the required package may be called 'libqt5widgets5'.
  On Red Hat/Fedora the required package may be called 'qt5-qtbase'.

- Install libcurl package. If there is more than one option choose the OpenSSL
  flavor of libcurl. SoundWire Server will start without libcurl but will not
  be able to check for updates.

- Install any other packages needed to satisfy shared library dependencies if 
  SoundWireServer fails to start. You should run it from the command line to
  see any error messages. If you are unable to get the latest SoundWire Server
  version running you can try the older Qt4-based SoundWire Server version 2.1.2
  available for download at GeorgieLabs. In particular if you get library
  version errors related to GLIBC or GLIBCXX try SoundWire Server version 2.1.2.
  Note that PortAudio usually displays a large number of errors, so these are
  suppressed unless you use the -verbose option when running SoundWireServer.

SoundWire Server Program Installation:

1. Add the directory containing these files to your search path. (You can skip
   this step if you run SoundWireServer from the command line using the full
   path.)

2. At this point you can start SoundWire Server from the command line by typing
   SoundWireServer. To run without a GUI or if your system has no X server
   use the -nogui option. To start it from the desktop do the steps below.

3. Copy the icon file sw-icon.xpm to directory ~/.local/share/icons or some 
   other standard location for icons.

4. Copy the launcher file SoundWire-Server.desktop to /usr/share/applications
   to appear in the apps menu and associate the app icon. You can also put the
   .desktop file on your desktop, if supported.

You may need to modify these instructions depending on your window manager and Linux
distribution.

(Continue with the README.txt file.)