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Add documentation about requirements #7

Closed alcoralcor closed 1 year ago

alcoralcor commented 1 year ago

Hello, I'm on Ubuntu 22.04, I installed CQ-Editor with pip install and tried to run app. I get this error :

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, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, webgl, xcb.

I did get rid of this with following installation :

sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qt5-qmake

Maybe that should be written somewhere in documentation. regards

jdegenstein commented 1 year ago

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I will add a note saying this is needed for Linux. I don't have a good way to test on other (older) distros, but I did confirm in a VM that this makes CQ-Editor launch properly.

Older related issue from mainline: https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor/issues/266