qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.

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qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.

What is the problem?

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.

 ./Downloads/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition-x86_64.AppImage
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: minimal, offscreen, wayland-egl, wayland, xcb.

zsh: IOT instruction  ./Downloads/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition-x86_64.AppImage

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Please show the output:

lsb_release -a

QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 ./qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition-x86_64.AppImage

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I ran into this same problem.

Release info

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Linuxmint
Description:    Linux Mint 21.1
Release:        21.1
Codename:       vera

Debug info

$ QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 ./qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition-x86_64.AppImage
qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: checking directory path "/tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms" ...
qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: looking at "/tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqminimal.so"
qt.core.plugin.loader: Found metadata in lib /tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqminimal.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "minimal"
        ]
    },
    "archlevel": 1,
    "className": "QMinimalIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 394496
}


qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: Got keys from plugin meta data QList("minimal")
qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: looking at "/tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqoffscreen.so"
qt.core.plugin.loader: Found metadata in lib /tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqoffscreen.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "offscreen"
        ]
    },
    "archlevel": 1,
    "className": "QOffscreenIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 394496
}


qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: Got keys from plugin meta data QList("offscreen")
qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: looking at "/tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqwayland-egl.so"
qt.core.plugin.loader: Found metadata in lib /tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqwayland-egl.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "wayland-egl"
        ]
    },
    "archlevel": 1,
    "className": "QWaylandEglPlatformIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 394496
}


qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: Got keys from plugin meta data QList("wayland-egl")
qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: looking at "/tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqwayland-generic.so"
qt.core.plugin.loader: Found metadata in lib /tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqwayland-generic.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "wayland"
        ]
    },
    "archlevel": 1,
    "className": "QWaylandIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 394496
}


qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: Got keys from plugin meta data QList("wayland")
qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: looking at "/tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so"
qt.core.plugin.loader: Found metadata in lib /tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "xcb"
        ]
    },
    "archlevel": 1,
    "className": "QXcbIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 394496
}


qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: Got keys from plugin meta data QList("xcb")
qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: checking directory path "/tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/bin/platforms" ...
qt.core.library: "/tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so" cannot load: Cannot load library /tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so: (libxcb-cursor.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
qt.core.plugin.loader: QLibraryPrivate::loadPlugin failed on "/tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so" : "Cannot load library /tmp/.mount_qBittorRC9ZZ/usr/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so: (libxcb-cursor.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
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: minimal, offscreen, wayland-egl, wayland, xcb.

Aborted (core dumped)

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Solution

sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0