ERROR: '/usr/local/share/scrcpy/scrcpy-server' does not exist or is not a regular file

[littleIdiotperson]

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• I have searched in existing issues.

Environment

• OS: [e.g. Debian, Windows, macOS...] Linux Mint 19.3
• scrcpy version: [e.g. 1.12.1] Scrcpy 1.6
• installation method: [e.g. manual build, apt, snap, brew, Windows release...] snap install scrcpy
• device model: Acer Aspire 5750
• Android version: [e.g. 10] Android 10

Describe the bug
A clear and concise description of what the bug is.
whenever I install scrcpy this error came out ERROR: '/usr/local/share/scrcpy/scrcpy-server' does not exist or is not a regular file
and when I go to the directory I see NO scrcpy folder! Even after creating 2 folders (scrcpy and scrcpy-server) the error still there
Please notice I already tried looking for issues #1002 and #1692 but I don't know how to apply the solution for my machine, please Explain in details what should I do

On errors, please provide the output of the console (and adb logcat if relevant).

 scrcpy
INFO: scrcpy 1.16 <https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy>
stat: No such file or directory
ERROR: '/usr/local/share/scrcpy/scrcpy-server' does not exist or is not a regular file

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[rom1v]

What is the result of?

echo $SCRCPY_SERVER_PATH

?

[littleIdiotperson]

What is the result of?

> echo $SCRCPY_SERVER_PATH

?

> snap install scrcpy

@cc sisco311

The result for echo $SCRCPY_SERVER_PATH and

snap install scrcpy

are
root@rayan:~# echo $SCRCPY_SERVER_PATH

root@rayan:#
and
root@rayan:# snap install scrcpy

scrcpy v1.16 from sisco311 installed
respectively.
and the result of scrcpy --help come normally

[rom1v]

cc @sisco311

[rom1v]

@littleIdiotperson Could you try building it manually (instead of using the snap package)?

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/blob/master/BUILD.md

[littleIdiotperson]

@rom1v Thank you rom1v for ur care about fixing my problem. The output of run-tme dependencies is

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
ffmpeg is already the newest version (7:4.1.3-0ppa1~18.04).
libsdl2-2.0-0 is already the newest version (2.0.12+dfsg1-2).
adb is already the newest version (1:8.1.0+r23-5~18.04).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

and from client build dependencies is

sudo apt install gcc git pkg-config meson ninja-build \
>                  libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev \
>                  libsdl2-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libavcodec-dev is already the newest version (7:4.1.3-0ppa1~18.04).
libavformat-dev is already the newest version (7:4.1.3-0ppa1~18.04).
libavutil-dev is already the newest version (7:4.1.3-0ppa1~18.04).
libsdl2-dev is already the newest version (2.0.12+dfsg1-2).
pkg-config is already the newest version (0.29.1-0ubuntu2).
ninja-build is already the newest version (1.8.2-1).
gcc is already the newest version (4:7.4.0-1ubuntu2.3).
git is already the newest version (1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.7).
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  meson
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 216 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,355 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

the meson my system is going to install is version 0.45.1 which is not supported for scrcpy as far as I know.. why didn't scrcpy detected that I have already installed meson and the output of meson --version is

root@rayan:~# meson --version
0.56.0

is this snap issues or what ? either scrcpy can't detect meson or meson is installed wrong or something else idk?

[littleIdiotperson]

Just searched for "scrcpy-server" in system files to detect where it went, I found it in the directory /snap/scrcpy/253/usr/local/share/scrcpy and moved it to usr/local/share/scrcpy. Question, why did snap installed it in different location,I will ask snap community for that ?

[13banda]

+1