I am not sure where to ask this, but given I followed the qtile.org troubleshooting tips I think it must be something related to the Slackware.

I tried installing qtile and its dependencies using the pip3 commands (I tried pip as well). I get no errors or flags during the install. However when I try "qtile start" I get the attached errors.

I subsequently tried building using sbopkg and it fails to build qtile as well.

I have recreated this on a clean install in a VM. So it has happened on my laptop and a VM.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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installing stuff with pip as super user doesn't always play nice with the other python packages in the system.
Try instead using the official slackbuild for qtile

https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/desktop/qtile/

I tried the slackbuild first but qtile fails to build, it gets through all of the dependencies and then fails on qtile.

Sorry didn't notice the bit about sbopkg in your post.
It would be better if you show us the slack build error, these should be guaranteed to work in a standard 15.0 installation. If it's failing then it's a problem

Yep, Qtile is a dependencies nightmare, but qtile-git seems to work.

thanks for testing it but please report the failure to the maintainer on SBo so that he could fix it.

Changelog explains why the git version works https://github.com/qtile/qtile/blob/master/CHANGELOG

Or the other option:

Looks like the latest version of qtile doesn't like the newer versions of python3-xcffib or python3-cairocffi. Also, python3-xcffib needs to be installed before python3-cairocffi is built.

It does work with these versions.
xcffib 1.3.0
cairocffi 1.5.1 (also needs python3-setuptools-opt)

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