spyder: 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?