What does, "Cannot extract the mkspecs directory." when running `qbs setup-qt /usr/bin/qmake qt` mean?

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I am following this tutorial, and the first command

qbs setup-qt /usr/bin/qmake qt

returns this error:

Cannot extract the mkspecs directory.

What is this trying to tell me, and is this something I need to fix?

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This is a fatal error that means the Qt profile could not be set up. It should never happen if Qt is correctly installed. What kind of Qt is this? Does it come from the distribution? What is the output of qmake -query?