Unable to open Spyder with Ubuntu

I installed Spyder into a virtualenv on Ubuntu using:

Steps to get Problem

1. source venv/bin/activate
2. sudo pip3 install spyder (which you are apparently never supposed to use sudo pip together ever)
3. spyder3

I get the following errors each time:

QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to ‘/tmp/runtime-quit’ libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast shared memfd open() failed: Function not implemented Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

I have read that the libGL error is often associated with an Nvidia graphics card which I read here, but I ran the following to check for the problematic driver which would be caused by Nvidia:

sudo ldconfig -p | grep -i gl.so which outputs:

libwayland-egl.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-egl.so.1
libcogl.so.20 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcogl.so.20
libQt5OpenGL.so.5 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5OpenGL.so.5
libGL.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
libEGL.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1

I did not find the nvidia driver amongst these. Maybe it’s the case that one of these libs listed is the problematic one, or I do not have the lib that it wants to run Spyder?

[dalthviz]

Also, just in case fro wsl/wsl2, we have some docs regarding the usage of Spyder with wsl2 instances here: https://docs.spyder-ide.org/current/faq.html?highlight=run cell#install-wsl2 (not installing Spyder itself in the wsl2 instance but connecting to a remote kernel started there from you host on Windows)

[texadactyl]

Xubuntu (ubuntu base + XFCE) 21.10

python3 -m pip install spyder -U --user works fine. No need for anaconda or miniconda. Not using any virtual environment of any type.