I managed to get the GUI start but I get the following error in the background:

Do you have suggestions?

Thanks!

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Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2025 10:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] no Qt platform plugin could be initialized

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Please let us know which freeeusfer release you installed using the CentOS8 RPM file, e.g., as downloaded from

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If you used the CentOS8 rpm installer for freesurfer 7.4.1 or an earlier release, then you will be using the Qt libraries included in the freesurfer distribution (and not what is installed on the system).

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then I think it will install whatever Qt packages are needed for use on the system. You should not need to set the QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable.

- R.

On Jan 23, 2025, at 22:12, Shakour Abuzneid <Shakour.Abuzneid@jefferson.edu> wrote:

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I have installed freesurfer on RHEL8. When I try to run the freeview, I get the following error:

This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, webgl, xcb.

Aborted (core dumped)

Any idea how to fix this?

I have done the following:

export QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH=$FREESURFER_HOME/lib/qt/plugins
sudo yum install qt5-qtbase qt5-qtbase-devel

Thanks!

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