# Paraview 5.10.1 Opening Error on WSL (Ubuntu 2004.2022.1.0)

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-10-1-opening-error-on-wsl-ubuntu-2004-2022-1-0/14715
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 26, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-10-1-opening-error-on-wsl-ubuntu-2004-2022-1-0/14715 "2024-05-26T14:09:51Z")
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### Author: ![HPAP](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@HPAP](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/HPAP)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-10-1-opening-error-on-wsl-ubuntu-2004-2022-1-0/14715/1 "2024-05-26T14:09:51Z")

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I downloaded _ParaView 5.10.1_ with openfoam11. The openfoam11 works just fine.  
But when I am trying to open paraview (even in the dir where I downloaded) the follow error message gets displayed.

"qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display  
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, xcb.

Aborted"

I have tried several potential solutions but none of them seems to work.  
There is no corrupted file in the system (I checked with command **sudo debsums -s** ).  
What do you think might causes it?

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-10-1-opening-error-on-wsl-ubuntu-2004-2022-1-0/14715/2 "2024-05-27T08:06:02Z")

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use the ParaView binary release from [https://paraview.org/download](https://paraview.org/download) instead

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### Author: ![HPAP](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@HPAP](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/HPAP)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2024, 11:29am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-10-1-opening-error-on-wsl-ubuntu-2004-2022-1-0/14715/3 "2024-05-27T11:29:14Z")

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I downloaded ParaView-5.12.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.10-x86\_64.tar.gz\* and I moved it into a WSL subdir  
/usr/doc/ParaviewZip  
By using the command  
“tar -xzvf ParaView-5.12.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.10-x86\_64.tar.gz\* -C usr/doc/ParaviewUnzip”  
then i "sudo rm -r ParaviewZip " and  
“cd ParaviewUnzip/bin” where i found paraview file by typing  
“file paraview” and then “./paraview” to run but the error message that appeared was the same:

qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display  
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: xcb.

error: exception occurred: Subprocess aborted

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2024, 11:32am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-10-1-opening-error-on-wsl-ubuntu-2004-2022-1-0/14715/4 "2024-05-27T11:32:41Z")

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> [@mwestphal](#):
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> use the ParaView binary release from [https://paraview.org/download](https://paraview.org/download) instead

for Windows. WSL is not officialy supported by ParaView