Hi Mike, I am not familiar with Mint, but I am very familiar with that error message. I wrote up a post on how I resolved it for Ubuntu 12.04 and a previous Qt 5 release quite some time ago, but it might assist you somewhat in figuring out where to go next:
http://goblincoding.com/2013/11/07/deploying-qt-5-applications-on-ubuntu-12-04/ Hope that helps! Regards, William. On 10 March 2015 at 17:47, Mike Jackson <imikejack...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am having an issue trying to create a self contained app package on > Linux. Specifically I am using Mint 17.x for development and Qt 5.4.0 > offline installer. I use CMake for my build system. I have no issues > debugging my application so that sanity check works from QtCreator. > > I have created a folder where I have placed my application (DREAM3D), a > shell script (DREAM3D.sh) and qt.conf. I have also created a "lib" > directory and a "plugins" directory. In the plugins directory I have the > "platforms" directory that contains the libqxcb.so file. I have placed all > the qt libraries in the lib directory. I have exported the LD_LIBRARY_PATH > correctly. I have placed the following in the qt.conf: > > [Paths] > Plugins=plugins > > When I start the app from the terminal i get the dreaded " > > [mjackson@MintDev1:DREAM3D-5.2.967-Linux-x86_64]$ ./DREAM3D > This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt > platform plugin "xcb". > > Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. > Aborted > > I have googled about as much as possible. Everyone seems to say the same > thing, to which I have followed the instructions and I _think_ I have > everything setup the way the articles/postings/blogs have instructed but > still nothing is working. Has anyone ever encountered this and what was the > problem? > > Thanks for any help. > > -- > Mike Jackson > imikejackson _at_ gee-mail dot com > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > >
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