TuskenTower on 21 Nov 2007 20:00:36 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Finding package for $file was: Unicode headers on Ubuntu are in libicu36-dev

  • From: TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Finding package for $file was: Unicode headers on Ubuntu are in libicu36-dev
  • Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:00:27 -0500
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On Nov 21, 2007 2:15 PM, Michael Greb <mgreb@linode.com> wrote:
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> TuskenTower wrote:
> > All,
> > If you ever unfortunate to see "error: unicode/uchar.h: No such file
> > or directory" and can't for the life of you figure out what package
> > the unicode header files are in, they are in libicu36-dev.  You would
> > figure that libunicode-dev would have what you are looking for, but
> > no, libicu36-dev is the right one.  Googling for my error turned up
> > garbage.  So I'm hoping that this post will help someone else in the
> > future.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Amul
>
> My go to method for locating the file a package is in has been keeping a
>  Contents-i386.gz file around from your favorite package mirror.  You
> don't need to update it all that often.  Then when you need a package
> name for a file:
>
> [michael@orion(~)] zgrep unicode/uchar.h Contents-i386.gz
> usr/include/unicode/uchar.h                   libdevel/libicu36-dev
>
> Both Debian and Ubuntu have package database websites that offer a
> search by filename method as well.
>
> <http://packages.ubuntu.com/> and
> <http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages> (redirects from packages.d.o)
>
Nice!  Thanks Mike.  That will save me time. :)

Amul
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