qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.

[singhravi]

@hskoglund
The env variables, Qt5_DIR and PATH are set with what you suggested.
I think qmake is required that is why i must have installed it.
I've ran the build again. Lets see.

[hskoglund]

BTW, found another option: if you can upgrade your Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 then you're in luck: the Qt version installed by apt on Ubuntu 20.04 is 5.12.8 :-)

[hskoglund]

@singhravi Your Qt 5.12.9 has the qmake program in ~/Qt/5.12.9/gcc_64/bin/ so that PATH export setting should point the script to the correct qmake.

[singhravi]

@hskoglund I believe we've found the solution to this.
The problem was ~ (tlide) was not working with .zshrc config.
Hence qmake and other binary were not being found.
I've changed it to the absolute path now.
Running the build again. Lets see :)

[singhravi]

It Worked! :facepalm: :D
Thanks a lot @hskoglund for helping me troubleshoot this! You're great.
So the problem was a ~ from the beginning. This was too silly.
Build is sucsessful and Package is running fine now.

[hskoglund]

Hah, so it was a ~ that sent you on a wild goose chase!
(tildes can be a PITA, I remember tripping on them when trying to ssh into Ubuntu from Windows)
Anways, glad to hear its working now :-)

[Jalpesh]

@hskoglund thank Man!

sudo apt remove qtchooser
sudo apt install libqt5gui5

boom.... its work

[chEguy]

Guys I still am getting this error

qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, xcb.
Aborted

BTW I am using Ubuntu20 on Windows10 with xcvsrv as X server

[chEguy]

I actually am not able to connect it to the display

Please help

[hskoglund]

Hi just guessing but maybe the solution in this post will help you too.

[Matriarch]

@Lengendary This is working solution for me, thank you

sudo apt-get install libxcb-xinerama0

[aurelien]

I know it is considered as a good software to build good software, but the point is here:

When you follow an installation guide step by step and make everything correctly, and the stuff does not works, that just mean it have been made with foot (from the stuff to the documentation.)

Really for thus who do their best, but it just not works on Debian 10 without doing weird things that should not be done out of the installation documentation.

Good luck

[Obed]

@Srinivas-Reddy Thanks. That helped me

[Megan S]

Thanks for all the helpful info on the thread!!

I am attempting an anaconda environment creation... I don't have admin privileges on the system I'm working on. It's Ubuntu16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"

The error I get is below. I'm assuming that because I'm using the anaconda install vs using apt-get, I can't just easily reinstall? It looks to me as if I'm missing the libxcb-xinerama.so.0 package. I checked qmake --version, the output shows Qt version 5.9.7

Thanks for any suggestions!

QLibraryPrivate::loadPlugin failed on "/export/research/analysis/human/jstephen/shared/programs/python/anaconda_072020/new/envs/mne21/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PyQt5/Qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so" : "Cannot load library /export/research/analysis/human/jstephen/shared/programs/python/anaconda_072020/new/envs/mne21/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PyQt5/Qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so: (libxcb-xinerama.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

$ qmake --version
QMake version 3.1
Using Qt version 5.9.7 in /export/research/analysis/human/jstephen/shared/programs/python/anaconda_072020/new/envs/mne21/lib

[jsulm]

@Megan-S said in qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.:

libxcb-xinerama.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So do you have libxcb-xinerama.so.0?

[mathsbloke]

@Srinivas-Reddy Many thanks, that got mine working too!

[C0K01]

@Srinivas-Reddy Many thanks!

[Jimit Rupani]

@Advig said in qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.:

1. export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1

2. export PATH=$PATH:~/Qt/Tools/QtCreator/bin

3. libxcb dependency so https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/338519/how-to-install-libxcb gave the solution.

sudo apt-get install libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-xtest0-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev

4. sudo apt-get install libxkbcommon-x11-dev

solved my problem for ubuntu 20.04. Tried reinstalling almost 3 times before the solution. Hope it helps someone

[coffeesmoke]

So, Debian 10:

1. ldd -r <for example, home dir>/Qt/Tools/QtCreator/lib/Qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so | grep libxcb-util

libxcb-util.so.1 => not found

2. Ok, continue...
   sudo find /usr/lib | grep libxcb-util
   ...
   libxcb-util.so.0.0.0
   libxcb-util.so.0.0
   libxcb-util.so.0
   , but need
   libxcb-util.so.1

3. Ok, Debian... :) Redy?
   sudo ln -fs /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-util.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-util.so.1.0.0
   sudo ln -fs /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-util.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-util.so.1.0
   sudo ln -fs /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-util.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-util.so.1

QtCreator start complete! :))))

[stounhange7]

@coffeesmoke thanks for the help. you revived my qt on debian 10