How to Fix error related to libicudata.so

Question

I'm getting following error when invoking a binary file from command line:

error while loading shared libraries: libicudata.so.55: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried installing following packages, and it didn't solve the problem

libicu-dev
libicu48
libicu48-dbg

Can you tell me the steps to fix this problem ?

Solution

libicudata.so.55 comes from the libicu55 package which is only available in the development version of Ubuntu, wily werewolf. You can get the .deb manually from here but it is not going to work because of the dependency problem. You will have to install those dependencies as well.

To remain on a stable release of Ubuntu (or any other debian system) while grabbing packages from a more recent version, you should use "Pinning" as described in the wiki.

Comments

[Ron]

which Ubuntu version are you using?