Problems with installing Calibre on Ubuntu 16.04

Question

I installed calibre. When i try to open it via console it states

This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb".

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, xcb.

I tried reinstalling calibre but it didnt work. Anyone aware of this problem?

Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial

Were there any errors during install? What version of Ubuntu are you running? Looks like you are simply missing a dependency (qt5) — user535733, Feb 21 '17 at 18:35
During Installation everything is fine. When i try to start calibre, the error messages occures — Damm Joe, Feb 21 '17 at 18:36
Please [edit] your post to include the output of lsb_release -a — Elder Geek, Feb 21 '17 at 19:21
Maybe could help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17106315/failed-to-load-platform-plugin-xcb-while-launching-qt5-app-on-linux-without — ridgy, Feb 21 '17 at 20:09

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 22 '18 at 07:16

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It is recommended to install from binaries rather than Ubuntu's apt repository. Please follow instructions there and if you have further problems please update.

answered Nov 22 '18 at 07:16

MysticEagle

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Problems with installing Calibre on Ubuntu 16.04

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