I'm using Ubuntu 22 and ParaView reports "Could not load the Qt platform plugin 'xcb'"

cory.quammen (Cory Quammen (Kitware)) October 31, 2022, 5:47pm 1

Install missing xcb packages using

apt install libxcb-xinerama0
apt install libxcb-xinput0

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No QT platform error - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

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wascott (Walter Alan Scott) September 9, 2025, 7:52pm 2

We saw that issue with RHEL8. ParaView updated it’s version of Qt for ParaView 6.0.0. What worked for us is installing the following:

xcb-util-cursor-0.1.3-9.el8.x86_64 .