This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized.
There is a related bug report (at the bottom of this already closed old issue) with the same symptoms.
I (as one of the BiT developers) are working on a fix...
Solution is to setup qt theming to work under gnome
To be totally sure about your steps: All you did to make it work was
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to install qgnomeplatform-qt5[-git]
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and (?) set the env var: QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gnome
Or are there further steps required?
BTW: A permanent qt5 dependency is unwanted if the user just wants to install BiT CLI (without the Qt5 GUI) so I think we must at least fix the unit test to work without Qt5 interference (better test isolation or ignore the unexpected warning).
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graysky commented on 2023-10-07 12:15 (UTC)
Using an AUR helper such as yay to build packages including backintime is HIGHLY discouraged. The recommended build method is to use a clean chroot. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot
I wrote a script that automates much of that called clean-chroot-manager offered here in the AUR.
Please stop posting build failures because you insist on building with yay or other AUR helpers.