That's a great tip.  Thanks!

On Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 4:03:24 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:

> My go-to ‘what package do I need’ tool is pkgs.org.  They’re showing that 
> the package for Fedora 38 is called xcb-until-cursor.  Linux library 
> management leaves much to be desired, in general.
>
> https://pkgs.org/download/libxcb-cursor.so.0()(64bit)
>
> Hope this helps!
> Jake
>
> On Mar 17, 2024, at 3:45 PM, Viktor Ransmayr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Hello Thomas,
>
> Am So., 17. März 2024 um 15:41 Uhr schrieb Thomas Passin <
> [email protected]>:
>
>> Try the other suggested library in the error message:  xcb-cursor0 . I 
>> went through the same thing about a week ago on a different distro, and 
>> using the alternate suggestion solved it.  If that doesn't work either, run 
>> an internet search for "fedora qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or 
>> libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin." This may 
>> surface another library name that your distro has.
>>
>
> I tried both libraries ! - See my log ...
>  
>
>> On Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 3:20:17 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Edward, hello Thomas,
>>>
>>> [email protected] schrieb am Freitag, 1. März 2024 um 07:32:23 UTC-5:
>>>
>>> On Friday, March 1, 2024 at 5:33:34 AM UTC-5 Edward K. Ream wrote:
>>>
>>> My question wasn't clear. I meant to ask whether potential errors 
>>> concerning the missing xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 libraries are a 
>>> show stopper.
>>>
>>> Imo, most linux users will know to run sudo apt install, so the missing 
>>> library isn't a significant barrier to requiring PyQt6. A new FAQ entry 
>>> might be all that is needed. Do you agree?
>>>
>>>
>>> A year ago I might have said it was a show-stopper.  But now the error 
>>> message from Ubuntu was clear enough that running its suggested command 
>>> fixed the issue.  In years past I had to go to the internet and wade 
>>> through a lot of useless posts to find the right command (I've saved it in 
>>> my workbook to make it easier to find).  I do know that some non-technical 
>>> people will read the error message and yet not know what to do, so I agree 
>>> with a FAQ entry.
>>>
>>> BTW, Ubuntu/XUbuntu is the only distro where I've encountered this issue 
>>> so far.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have encountered this problem as well, when I tried to install Leo 
>>> from the devel-branch into a newly created Fedora 38 VM.
>>>
>>> When I try to install the mentioned libraries I receive the following 
>>> error msg:
>>>
>>> ###
>>>
>>>     [user@Test-VM1 ~]$ 
>>>     [user@Test-VM1 ~]$ ./leo &
>>>     [1] 1513
>>>     [user@Test-VM1 ~]$ setting leoID from os.getenv('USER'): 'user'
>>>
>>>     qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed 
>>> to load the Qt xcb platform plugin.
>>>     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: linuxfb, vnc, minimal, wayland-egl, 
>>> eglfs, vkkhrdisplay, offscreen, wayland, xcb, minimalegl.
>>>
>>>     ./leo: line 2:  1517 Aborted                 (core dumped) python 
>>> ~/leo-editor/launchLeo.py $1
>>>
>>>     [1]+  Exit 134                ./leo
>>>     [user@Test-VM1 ~]$ 
>>>     [user@fedora-38-minimal-vr ~]$ sudo dnf install libxcb-cursor0
>>>     Last metadata expiration check: 2:19:22 ago on Sun Mar 17 12:29:58 
>>> 2024.
>>>     No match for argument: libxcb-cursor0
>>>     Error: Unable to find a match: libxcb-cursor0
>>>     [user@fedora-38-minimal-vr ~]$ 
>>>     [user@fedora-38-minimal-vr ~]$ sudo dnf install xcb-cursor0
>>>     Last metadata expiration check: 2:19:56 ago on Sun Mar 17 12:29:58 
>>> 2024.
>>>     No match for argument: xcb-cursor0
>>>     Error: Unable to find a match: xcb-cursor0
>>>     [user@fedora-38-minimal-vr ~]$ 
>>>
>>> ###
>>>
>>> What am I missing ?
>>>
>>> With kind regards,
>>>
>>> Viktor
>>>  
>>>
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