[solved] Installation Problems on Linux Nobara (Fedora)

QCAD Professional QCAD Installation and Upgrades
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Hello,

I switched from Windows to Linux and I am trying to get my QCAD Pro running. I can install it but it hangs when trying to start it up. I’ve tried all of the installers from version 3.27.8 and 3.30.1.

The problem seems to be Wayland. With the main installer I get errors similar to this thread: Cannot start QCad - QCAD Troubleshooting and Problems - QCAD Forum. With the qt 5.14 installer I get errors similar to this thread: Linux 64bit install : why Qt & not QT ? Which differences ? - QCAD Installation and Upgrades - QCAD Forum.

I did try the newest version (3.32.4) of the community edition and that works.

Is there any way to get either version of QCAD Pro above to work? Maybe copy/paste a file from 3.32.4 into 3.30.1pro? Any ideas?

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Fixed it by running the qt5.14 version from the terminal using the following line:

 QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./qcad-bin

You might need to install Qt for the QT_QPA_PLATFORM variable to work but maybe not.