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jlownie

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Registered: 2015-08-09

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session-desktop requires libicui18n.so.73

Hello,

I have installed session-desktop and when I try to start it I get an error message:

usr/lib/electron25/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.73: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The current installed version of ICU is `libicui18n.so.75`.  I have the package file for the older version in my pacman cache.  Is there some way I can make this version of the library available to electron so that session will start up?

gromit

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Re: session-desktop requires libicui18n.so.73

You'll have to rebuild the AUR package against the latest version of ICU so it links to the correct soname version

seth

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Re: session-desktop requires libicui18n.so.73

You most likely installed https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/electron25-bin which will (still) depend in the older libicu resp. a rebuild.
You might get away w/ manually putting the old .73 libicu objects into /usr/local/lib, don't symlink anything and don't try to downgrade icu in isolation.

Edit: F5
But please nb. that building electron will take a huge amount of time and resources.

Last edited by seth (2024-08-22 07:24:56)

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WorMzy

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Re: session-desktop requires libicui18n.so.73

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues

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jlownie

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Registered: 2015-08-09

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Re: session-desktop requires libicui18n.so.73

Seth and Gromit, thanks for your help.  I copied the old libicu files into the /usr/lib dir, that fixed that problem.  However I then ran into the same version issue with libavcodec.  I fixed that the same way, but then had the same problem with libx265.so.  At that point I gave up.

I don't know how to rebuild electron so I've left a message in the AUR comments and am going to leave it at that.

seth

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Re: session-desktop requires libicui18n.so.73

The problematic package is https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/electron25-bin - unless https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/session-desktop could actually move to a more recent version of electron.
You can build https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/electron25 but, as mentioned, time and resources - if you've less than 32GB RAM I'd probably not even try.

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