You need the following installed: openssl libao avahi (avahi-daemon running and avahi-publish-service on path) Perl Debian/Ubuntu users need: libssl-dev libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libao2 libao-dev2 libio-socket-inet6-perl libwww-perl avahi-utils Perl modules (install from CPAN if needed): HTTP::Message Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA IO::Socket::INET6