Re: BUG #16488: psql installation initdb

At Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:22:11 +0200, baki baki <spacexnasafbi(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in
> No, I don't.
> Idont no I use thunar as file manager
> So how do I install libcu
> And things the right way

As a workaround, "pacman -S icu" would do that for you. If you find
another missing library, the pkgfile command will find the package to
install for the file for you.

> On Jun 9, 2020 5:10 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> PG Bug reporting form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > when i type this command this happens : initdb --locale en_US.UTF-8 -D
> > /var/lib/postgres/data/data
> > /usr/bin/postgres: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.67:
> > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Well, that seems pretty straightforward: you don't have libicui18n,
> or at least you don't have the right version of it.
>
> Does
> ls /usr/lib*/libicui18n*
> show anything? I don't know anything about blackarch but on
> a Fedora 32 box I see
> /usr/lib64/libicui18n.so.65
> /usr/lib64/libicui18n.so.65.1
>
> If you don't see anything, perhaps you just need to install libicu.
> If you do but it's not version 67, then you have a version-skew
> problem, and you might have to recompile Postgres to make it work
> with the libicu version that your distro provides.
>
> Either way, I wonder how you got into this situation. Any reasonable
> package manager would have insisted on installing a compatible libicu
> version along with Postgres. Did you override such warnings at install?
>
> regards, tom lane

regards.

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