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Fix #74, Qt xcb error for pip install method#80

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Fix #74, Qt xcb error for pip install method#80
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Needs to be fixed in setup.py as well for pip install -e . method when not using anaconda

Needs to be fixed in setup.py as well for `pip install -e .` method
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I'm hitting this error when trying to run the app from a windows machine using WSL to install into an ubuntu subsystem. Manually installing the headless package gets rid of the error, but am getting a new error now:

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.

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@TheNotary as far as I know WSL isn't meant for GUI applications. I'd just install it natively into either windows or Linux.

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Ah I see, that's probably why we've been seeing so many frontends being exposed as web servers these days since then they can be deployed to headless environments like remote servers/ wsl/ docker containers and then they can be managed by exposing a port a opening them up via a web browser.

I'll give give installation via Windows another next time I'm in-person with the entomologist I'm working with.

@jbohnslav jbohnslav merged commit 3d3ccbf into jbohnslav:master Feb 21, 2022
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