[chimerax-users] I Have a Problem Installing ChimeraX on Debian Buster

[Stephen P. Molnar]

I am attempting the installation of 
ChimeraC-1.2.5(chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24) on my up to date Debian 
v-1064 bit platform. I  open the tar.gz package without any 
difficulties, but when I attempt to execute ChmieraX i get the following:

comp at AbNormal:~/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/bin$ ./ChimeraX
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: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, 
offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, 
wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.

Fatal Python error: Aborted

Current thread 0x00007fcb3dafd740 (most recent call first):
   File 
"/home/comp/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chimerax/ui/gui.py", 
line 157 in __init__
   File 
"/home/comp/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ChimeraX_main.py", 
line 577 in init
   File 
"/home/comp/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ChimeraX_main.py", 
line 1015 in <module>
   File 
"/home/comp/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", 
line 87 in _run_code
   File 
"/home/comp/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", 
line 194 in _run_module_as_main
Aborted
comp at AbNormal:~/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/bin$

xcb is installed, but the Debian v-10 default version of python is 3.7. 
Is this the problem?

Is there a solution? Reinstalling did not fix the problem.

Thanks in advance.

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