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Issue with VLC and Qt after installing MotionBox #1

Open jvaccaro opened 1 year ago

jvaccaro commented 1 year ago

Hello; After installing MotionBox valpha 1.8.1-0 I on my Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS desktop machine I noticed that three of my other apps apps were causing Core Dumps with this error message: **qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Aborted (core dumped)**

Further inspection revealed that my VLC icon had disappeared and attempts to reinstall it gave this error: _sudo apt install vlc [sudo] password for john: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: vlc : Depends: vlc-plugin-video-output (= 3.0.19~git20230407-0ubuntu1~20.04.sav0) but 3.0.18-2+20.04.sav0 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages._

So it appears manually extracting the MotionBox tarball and placing the contents in the usr/bin directory tree:

  1. Overwrote/Removed VLC
  2. Bypassed the normal Ubuntu package managemnt system
  3. Broke my QT subsystem causing several previously funtioning apps to Core Dump.

Has any one else encountered this? As far as solutions. I'd like to cleanly remove MotionBox or at least fix the QT error so my other apps function once again. Also, getting VLC back as a stand alone program would be a good thing.

Thank You....

John Vaccaro eMail: jvaccaro@gmail.com

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3unjee commented 1 year ago

I mean, that's very unlikely my good sir. MotionBox is entirely self contained and standalone. Something is probably wrong with your linux install ?

3unjee commented 1 year ago

So it appears manually extracting the MotionBox tarball and placing the contents in the usr/bin directory tree

The content of the archive is not supposed to be placed on your system usr/bin directory. It's a standalone application.