Run Mikrotik Winbox v4 on Ubuntu

I’ve been back to spending more and more time in Ubuntu on my dual-boot PC, and I also happen to use Mikrotik router at the moment, and Winbox is a nice UI for managing that router.

There’s a snap package on Ubuntu, but that’s for v3.x, which looks too outdated for me. I prefer to run v4, which requires you to download a zip file from https://mikrotik.com/download/winbox and extract it, and then double-click the “WinBox” executable to launch it.

You cannot successfully run it, at least on Ubuntu 26.04 which I’m using without first installing some dependencies:

sudo apt install libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-image0 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-render-util0

sudo apt install libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-image0 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-render-util0

Once you’ve installed that, you should be able to run the app without trouble.