[arch-general] Cantata gives error after Qt-5.3 upgrade

[Savyasachee Jha]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:18 PM, A Rojas <nqn1976list at gmail.com> wrote:

> Savyasachee Jha wrote:
>
> > After updating to qt 5.3 in [testing], I found that cantata does not
> start
> > up. Upon running from the terminal, I get the error:
> >
> > $ cantata
> >
> > This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt
> > platform plugin "xcb".
> >
> > Available platform plugins are: eglfs, kms, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl,
> > offscreen, xcb.
> >
> > Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
> >
> > However, reinstalling did not fix the problem. Downgrading qt to the
> > version 5.2.1 in [extra] did. I believe that recompiling "cantata" with
> qt
> > 5.3 might be required?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> Have you checked the output of pacman and installed all needed qt5
> optdepends?
>
>
There are no optdepends for cantata or any of the qt5 packages it depends
on.

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Savyasachee Jha

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