Missing libicui18n.so.34

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:30:17AM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
> At 09:27 AM 12/1/2006 +0700, you wrote:
> >I'm running 6.1-STABLE, and a few days ago cvsup'ed and tried portupgrade.
> >
> >Portupgrade failed on some of xfce4's components. Checking xfce4-print and 
> >xfce4-desktop's output, I have the error message:
> >
> >libicui18n.so.34, needed by /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so not found (try 
> >using -rpath or -rpath-link)
> >
> >So, checking for the library I first tried 'locate libicui18n.so.34' and 
> >got:
> >
> >/usr/local/lib/libicui18n.so.34
> >/usr/local/lib/libicui18n.so.34.1
> >
> >but when I ran 'find /usr/local/lib -name libicui18n.so.34' it doesn't 
> >find anything. Apparently something deleted the library since the last 
> >time 'locate' updated its database.

Presumably your portupgrade.

> >OK, so 'ls -l /usr/local/lib/libicui18n*' gives me:
> >
> >
> >lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        18 Oct 15 18:24 libicui18n.so -> 
> >libicui18n.so.36.0
> >lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        18 Oct 15 18:24 libicui18n.so.36 -> 
> >libicui18n.so.36.0
> >-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   1474969 Oct 15 18:24 libicui18n.so.36.0
> >
> >
> >Apparently the library libicui18n.so.XX is installed by something called 
> >icu. I don't know what it is, but the latest version is icu-36, and it 
> >installed libicui18n.so.36.0, made links to it, and may have deleted 
> >libicui18n.so.34 at the same time. Should I try creating a link named 
> >'libicui18n.so.34' to 'libicui18n.so.36.0'?

No, there's a reason the library changed name, after all.

This problem usually happens when you forget to update all ports that
depend on an updated port.  Try portupgrade -a or similar to repair
it.

Kris
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