Solved Troubles with icui18n library

[Nicola Mingotti]

Hi,

I installed vlc yestrday and since that moment I had a lot trobles with
other software.

Expecially, FreeCAD and TeXmacs now say:

Unable to load library icui18n "Cannot load library icui18n: (Shared object 
"icui18n" not found, required by "texmacs.bin")"

But the library is there !

#> localte icui18n
locate icui18n
/usr/local/lib/libicui18n.a
/usr/local/lib/libicui18n.so
/usr/local/lib/libicui18n.so.60
/usr/local/lib/libicui18n.so.60.2

Do you have ideas on how to fix this ? I usually install via packages, my system is not fast.

Bye

 

[SirDice]

I'm guessing installing vlc caused some libraries to be updated. And the broken applications are still trying to use the old versions. Make sure your system is completely up to date: pkg upgrade

 

[Nicola Mingotti]

Thank you SirDice, that solved, now all things seem in order !

BTW, do you know what the library icui18n is for ?

 

[SirDice]

Not exactly, but i18n refers to 'internationalization' and ICU is International Components for Unicode. So I suspect it's a collection of codepages and libraries to make it easier for a developer to work with translated text in a application.