Calibre 5.0.1 Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" FIXED

[brown131]

I upgraded to Calibre 5.0.1 on a Ubuntu 14.4 LTS system, and got this error when I tried starting calibre:

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.

Reinstalling libxkbcommon-x11-0 did not help. To fix it, I first did "export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1" This allowed me to see what the missing libraries were. I then looked them up one at a time at https://packages.ubuntu.com to see what package they belonged to.

I found that I needed to manually install the following apt packages:
libxcb-xinerama0
libxcb-icccm4
libxcb-image0
libxcb-keysyms1
libxcb-render-util0

I hope others find this helpful.

[JSWolf]

Did you download Calibre from the Calibre website or did you download it from your repository. If you downloaded from your repository then the issues you had could have been because of that. Repositories quite often get Calibre wrong.

[kovidgoyal]

Yes, Qt now-a-days no longer bundles large parts of xcb with itself, so you hve to have more of those libraries installed on your system. Typically, only installing libxcb-xinerama0 should be needed.

[gbm]

Originally Posted by brown131

I upgraded to Calibre 5.0.1 on a Ubuntu 14.4 LTS system, and got this error when I tried starting calibre:

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.

Reinstalling libxkbcommon-x11-0 did not help. To fix it, I first did "export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1" This allowed me to see what the missing libraries were. I then looked them up one at a time at https://packages.ubuntu.com to see what package they belonged to.

I found that I needed to manually install the following apt packages:
libxcb-xinerama0
libxcb-icccm4
libxcb-image0
libxcb-keysyms1
libxcb-render-util0

I hope others find this helpful.

I highly recommend that you upgrade to an OS that is not long past it's end of life date.

bernie

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Yes, Qt now-a-days no longer bundles large parts of xcb with itself, so you hve to have more of those libraries installed on your system. Typically, only installing libxcb-xinerama0 should be needed.

Can you block Calibre 5 from being installed on obsolete Linux systems?

[Margaret]

I had the same problem as brown131, with Ubuntu 16.04 using the command line install from the Calibre website. Installing libxcb-xinerama0 seems to have solved the problem; all the other libxcb-* mentioned by brown131 were already on my system. Thanks all round for the help.

[Catweazle]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Can you block Calibre 5 from being installed on obsolete Linux systems?

This also fixed the issue for me on Ubuntu 20.04. So not only obsolete Linux systems have this issue...

[PaceyIV]

I've installed all the suggested packaged in my Debian 10 but I still have 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, xcb.

Annullato

I've upgrade calibre with the web script.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by PaceyIV

I've installed all the suggested packaged in my Debian 10 but I still have 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, xcb.

Annullato

I've upgrade calibre with the web script.

Don't use your Linux suppository for anything at all Calibre related. Most Linux suppositories BOTCH Calibre big time. Go to the official Calibre website and get it from there.

[PeterT]

Jon. Reading the op's post it states installed using the script from the web site. To my eye that is the official install and not from a distributions repository

[PeterT]

From the calibre Linux download page

If you get an error*Could not load the Qt platform plugin xcb*you are missing some needed X11-XCB libraries, such as libxcb-xinerama0, for details see*https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=333503

[PaceyIV]

I've installed and updated Calibre only from the script https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh

[PaceyIV]

It was missing libxcb-randr0

[Simon Taylor]

I was getting the 'abort' message cited in the thread on upgrading Calibre.

After installing libxcb-xinerama0, when launching Calibre from Terminal I receive the following:

QApplication: invalid style override 'gtk' passed, ignoring it.
Available styles: Windows, Fusion
Using proxies: {'no': 'localhost,127.0.0.0/8,::1'}

I am running Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon 64-bit.

Thanks!

Best,
Simon

[kotatsu]

Anyone coming from the Calibre site confused and already tried the xlib stuff: Make sure you have qt5 installed! I'm on a completely fresh machine and needed it to work.