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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello ChimeraX developer,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I am trying to update ChimeraX from v1.1 to v1.2.5 on a Ubuntu 16.04 Linux machine, but Chimerax v1.2.5 failed to start with the following error message:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">></span> </i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">sudo apt-get install ~/Downloads/ucsf-chimerax_1.2.5_amd64.deb<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">>chimerax<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Fatal Python error: Aborted<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Current thread 0x00007f5866636700 (most recent call first):<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> File "/usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chimerax/ui/gui.py", line 157 in __init__<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> File "/usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ChimeraX_main.py", line 577 in init<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> File "/usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ChimeraX_main.py", line 1015 in <module><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> File "/usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87 in _run_code<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> File "/usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 194 in _run_module_as_main<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Aborted (core dumped)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I could downgrade to ChimeraX v1.1 and it works fine, just wondering what has changed in v1.2.5 and if there is a fix for this issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bing-Rui <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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