First of all I would like to say that I'm not an experienced Linux user, so please, don't be too 'techy' with me.
I'm trying to install XnViewMP package on Xubuntu 20.04, but I'm getting this error:

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: linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.
Aborted (core dumped)

I was googling and searching for a solution, but didn't find one. The only thing I understood is that I have some missing libraries the application relies upon? I already tried this solution, sudo apt-get install libx11-xcb1 and few other solutions I found on various websites, but I still have the same problem.

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I was able to resolve the issue by installing missing packages. Those are the steps I performed:

1. I set the QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS to 1 with export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 command and ran xnview from the same command line. It returned the following output:

QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "/opt/XnView/lib/platforms" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqlinuxfb.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqlinuxfb.so, metadata=
{ "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3", "MetaData": { "Keys": [ "linuxfb" ] }, "archreq": 0, "className": "QLinuxFbIntegrationPlugin", "debug": false, "version": 331520
}
Got keys from plugin meta data ("linuxfb")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqminimal.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqminimal.so, metadata=
{ "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3", "MetaData": { "Keys": [ "minimal" ] }, "archreq": 0, "className": "QMinimalIntegrationPlugin", "debug": false, "version": 331520
}
Got keys from plugin meta data ("minimal")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqminimalegl.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqminimalegl.so, metadata=
{ "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3", "MetaData": { "Keys": [ "minimalegl" ] }, "archreq": 0, "className": "QMinimalEglIntegrationPlugin", "debug": false, "version": 331520
}
Got keys from plugin meta data ("minimalegl")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqoffscreen.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqoffscreen.so, metadata=
{ "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3", "MetaData": { "Keys": [ "offscreen" ] }, "archreq": 0, "className": "QOffscreenIntegrationPlugin", "debug": false, "version": 331520
}
Got keys from plugin meta data ("offscreen")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqvnc.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqvnc.so, metadata=
{ "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3", "MetaData": { "Keys": [ "vnc" ] }, "archreq": 0, "className": "QVncIntegrationPlugin", "debug": false, "version": 331520
}
Got keys from plugin meta data ("vnc")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqwayland-egl.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqwayland-egl.so, metadata=
{ "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3", "MetaData": { "Keys": [ "wayland-egl" ] }, "archreq": 0, "className": "QWaylandEglPlatformIntegrationPlugin", "debug": false, "version": 331520
}
Got keys from plugin meta data ("wayland-egl")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqwayland-generic.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqwayland-generic.so, metadata=
{ "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3", "MetaData": { "Keys": [ "wayland" ] }, "archreq": 0, "className": "QWaylandIntegrationPlugin", "debug": false, "version": 331520
}
Got keys from plugin meta data ("wayland")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqwayland-xcomposite-egl.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqwayland-xcomposite-egl.so, metadata=
{ "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3", "MetaData": { "Keys": [ "wayland-xcomposite-egl" ] }, "archreq": 0, "className": "QWaylandXCompositeEglPlatformIntegrationPlugin", "debug": false, "version": 331520
}
Got keys from plugin meta data ("wayland-xcomposite-egl")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqwayland-xcomposite-glx.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqwayland-xcomposite-glx.so, metadata=
{ "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3", "MetaData": { "Keys": [ "wayland-xcomposite-glx" ] }, "archreq": 0, "className": "QWaylandXCompositeGlxPlatformIntegrationPlugin", "debug": false, "version": 331520
}
Got keys from plugin meta data ("wayland-xcomposite-glx")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqwebgl.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqwebgl.so, metadata=
{ "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3", "MetaData": { "Keys": [ "webgl" ] }, "archreq": 0, "className": "QWebGLIntegrationPlugin", "debug": false, "version": 331520
}
Got keys from plugin meta data ("webgl")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqxcb.so"
Found metadata in lib /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqxcb.so, metadata=
{ "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3", "MetaData": { "Keys": [ "xcb" ] }, "archreq": 0, "className": "QXcbIntegrationPlugin", "debug": false, "version": 331520
}
Got keys from plugin meta data ("xcb")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "/opt/XnView/platforms" ...
Cannot load library /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqxcb.so: (libxcb-icccm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
QLibraryPrivate::loadPlugin failed on "/opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqxcb.so" : "Cannot load library /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqxcb.so: (libxcb-icccm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
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: linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, webgl, xcb.
Aborted (core dumped)

2. I checked for missing packages with ldd /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqxcb.so | grep "not found"

ldd /opt/XnView/lib/platforms/libqxcb.so | grep "not found" libxcb-icccm.so.4 => not found libxcb-image.so.0 => not found libxcb-keysyms.so.1 => not found libxcb-render-util.so.0 => not found libxcb-xkb.so.1 => not found libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 => not found libxcb-icccm.so.4 => not found libxcb-image.so.0 => not found libxcb-keysyms.so.1 => not found libxcb-render-util.so.0 => not found libxcb-xkb.so.1 => not found libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 => not found libicui18n.so.56 => not found libicuuc.so.56 => not found libicudata.so.56 => not found

3. I installed the missing packages.

sudo apt install libxcb-image0
sudo apt install libxcb-keysyms1
sudo apt install libxcb-render-util0
sudo apt install libxcb-xkb1
sudo apt install libxkbcommon-x11-0

Problem solved.

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