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rogerlakoski

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Registered: 2025-09-03

Posts: 3

rpi-imager not working with Gnome

Hi there,

I cant run rpi-imager (Raspberry Pi Imaging Tool) from Arch using wayland.

This is the output when starting to launch it:

roger@archlinux ~$ rpi-imager
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in "" even though it was found.
Loading cache settings:
  Caching enabled: true
  Last file name: ""
  Uncompressed hash (extract_sha256): "(empty)"
  Compressed hash (image_download_sha256): "(empty)"
CacheManager initialized with background thread
Starting background cache operations
Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (6.9.2) with this library (6.9.1)
Background: Checking disk space for cache operations
Abortado                   (`core' generado) rpi-imager

I installed qt6, qt6-wayland, qt5-wayland, xorg-xwaland, and none of it solved the problem.

Can anyone help me?

Here's my setup.

                 .o+`                    ---------------
                `ooo/                    OS: Arch Linux x86_64
               `+oooo:                   Host: Inspiron 7460
              `+oooooo:                  Kernel: Linux 6.15.6-arch1-1
              -+oooooo+:                 Uptime: 11 mins
            `/:-:++oooo+:                Packages: 942 (pacman), 7 (flatpak)
           `/++++/+++++++:               Shell: bash 5.3.0
          `/++++++++++++++:              Display (LGD053C): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz i]
         `/+++ooooooooooooo/`            DE: GNOME 48.3
        ./ooosssso++osssssso+`           WM: Mutter (Wayland)
       .oossssso-````/ossssss+`          WM Theme: Adwaita
      -osssssso.      :ssssssso.         Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4]
     :osssssss/        osssso+++.        Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4]
    /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-        Font: Adwaita Sans (11pt) [GTK2/3/4]
  `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-      Cursor: Adwaita (24px)
 `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:     Terminal: GNOME Terminal 3.56.2
`++:.                           `-/+/    Terminal Font: Adwaita Mono (11pt)
.`                                 `/    CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U (4) @ z
                                         GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 940MX [Discrete]
                                         GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 620 @ 1.05 GH]
                                         Memory: 3.05 GiB / 15.43 GiB (20%)
                                         Swap: Disabled
                                         Disk (/): 16.68 GiB / 48.91 GiB (34%) 4
                                         Disk (/home): 47.81 GiB / 67.36 GiB (74
                                         Local IP (wlan0): 10.154.48.149/20
                                         Battery (DELL 35RH35C): 100% [AC Conne]
                                         Locale: es_ES.UTF-8

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,724

Re: rpi-imager not working with Gnome

Looks like a classic partial update, you installed qt6-wayland without doing a full system update? If so, it's out of sync with the rest of the system.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … nsupported