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Re: [PLUG] Unicode headers on Ubuntu are in libicu36-dev
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- From: TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com>
- To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Unicode headers on Ubuntu are in libicu36-dev
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:05:08 -0500
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On Nov 21, 2007 2:22 PM, Matthew Rosewarne <mrosewarne@inoutbox.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 21 November 2007, TuskenTower wrote:
> > 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.
>
> One of the most fantastically-useful programs in Debian (and Ubuntu) is
> apt-file. It downloads the lists of what files are in what packages and
> makes a searchable DB. Unlike dpkg --listfiles or --search, it knows about
> every package in the APT repository, not just the packages you have
> installed.
>
> Update the list of packages & files:
> $> apt-file update
>
> What's in libicu36-dev?:
> $> apt-file show libicu36-dev
> libicu36-dev: usr/bin/derb
> libicu36-dev: usr/bin/genbrk
> libicu36-dev: usr/bin/gencnval
> (and so on...)
>
> Where the hell is unicode/uchar.h???:
> $> apt-file search unicode/uchar.h
> libicu36-dev: usr/include/unicode/uchar.h
>
Thanks for the tips guys. I knew that there should be some way to get
this information, but I only know how to search for packages and list
files of installed packages.
Amul
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