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ssh -X with opengl Qt enabled app solution to neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
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ssh -X Qt OpenGL error solution

To avoid the following error: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled when doing X forwarding via SSH one needs to install the following (in the remote machine where you are sshing into). This also solves black screen for me.

# This is needed in the remote machine
sudo apt-get install libegl-mesa0 libglx-mesa0
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