Error with swift command in terminal in ubuntu 15.04

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I installed the open sourced version of Swift from swift.org for Ubuntu 15.10, but I am running Ubuntu 15.04 in my machine. Now when I executed the swift command in the terminal it raising the following error.

swift/usr/bin/repl_swift:error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.55: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

error: failed to stop process at REPL breakpoint

I ran the following command to ensure libicu52 is installed.

 sudo apt-get install libicu52

Please help me to sort out this problem. Thanks in advance.

The question is better asked on the swift-users mailing list. — dasdom
– dasdom, Commented Dec 14, 2015 at 12:04
maybe a typo, but swift asks for version 55, while you provide version 52 — gengisdave
– gengisdave, Commented Dec 14, 2015 at 12:18

Niraj Pradhan · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-10 17:14:54Z

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Try this one

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu55_55.1-7_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i libicu55_55.1-7_amd64.deb

It worked for me

answered Jan 10, 2017 at 17:14

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Florian Pfisterer · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-30 07:03:12Z

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For newer versions where it complains about libicuuc.so.57: cannot open shared object file (version 57), use the following:

sudo wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu57_57.1-6ubuntu0.3_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libicu57_57.1-6ubuntu0.3_amd64.deb

In general, you can search here for the version you need.

answered Mar 30, 2018 at 7:03

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Titi Wangsa bin Damhore · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-02 21:32:04Z

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I tried this as well

apt-get install libicu-dev

It worked for me

answered Jun 2, 2016 at 21:32

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Anatoli P · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-15 03:48:12Z

You don't need libicu-dev unless you are building Swift from source. The problem is that, as pointed out by gengisdave, libicu52 is installed on the machine, but libicu55 is required. A few things you might try:

See if apt-get install libicu55 is going to install the needed version.

Install the binary distribution intended for Ubuntu 14.04. That one requires libicu52, which you do have on the system. This may or may not work, and if it does at first, it may break unexpectedly later depending on what you are doing.

This is even worse, but you might try it if you are just experimenting. Use dpkg -L libicu52 to find out where libicuuc.so.52 is located and create a symlink to it, named libicuuc.so.55, in the same directory.

Demian Berisford-Maynard · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-14 13:38:36Z

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Before the 8th of December this used to work

echo "deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main" | sudo tee --
append /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libicu55

edited Dec 14, 2017 at 13:38

answered Sep 25, 2017 at 12:25

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