Your message dated Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:42:39 -0500
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and subject line Re: Bug#1112108: r-base: After Trixie upgrade and autoremove,
r-base stopped working, libicu72 manual install
has caused the Debian Bug report #1112108,
regarding r-base: After Trixie upgrade and autoremove, r-base stopped working,
libicu72 manual install
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Package: r-base
Version: 4.5.0-3
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
After Trixie upgrade, r-base stopped working. Prompt error: libicuuc.so.72:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The only solution was to manually download and install libicu72 deb package
from Bookworm.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.41+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=es_AR:es
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages r-base depends on:
ii r-base-core 4.5.0-3
ii r-recommended 4.5.0-3
Versions of packages r-base recommends:
ii r-base-html 4.5.0-3
ii r-doc-html 4.5.0-3
Versions of packages r-base suggests:
pn elpa-ess <none>
pn r-doc-info | r-doc-pdf <none>
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi Santiago,
Thanks for taking the time to file an issue.
On 26 August 2025 at 14:09, Santiago Capobianco wrote:
| Package: r-base
| Version: 4.5.0-3
| Severity: important
| X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
|
| Dear Maintainer,
|
| After Trixie upgrade, r-base stopped working. Prompt error: libicuuc.so.72:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
That is not a bug in package r-base (or r-base-core) as it does not depend on
libicu*.
What happened here is that you had a package using liboicu*, most likely the
popular 'stringi' package, installed in /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ (or
below $HOME). What matters here is that this R package using libicu* did NOT
come via apt / dpkg so the package manager did not know libicu72 had another
dependency, and it removed it for the now-current version. That is entirely
'normal' (if irritating !!) because the dependency is outside the view of the
package manager!
The 'usual solution' I prefer is to ensure you have libicu-dev installed, and
just re-install 'stringi'. (Or to install r-cran-stringi). That gets it a
dependency on the current version of libicu* and all is well.
If you want an all-integrated approach look at r2u (for Ubuntu) where _all_
CRAN packages are .deb packages so libicu72 would not be uninstalled as apt
knows the dependency. See https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u for more.
I can also recommend the r-sig-debian mailing list for questions like this:
it is a low-volume, low-key place for questions about R on Debian (and Ubuntu
and derivatives). See https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
and note that you need to subscribe to post.
| The only solution was to manually download and install libicu72 deb package
from Bookworm.
No, that is not the only solution as just discussed (but it is one).
Also note that the apt mirror at the CRAN hosts provide R 4.5.1 for Debian
should you want it, see https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
Cheers, Dirk
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: 13.0
| APT prefers stable-updates
| APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable')
| Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
|
| Kernel: Linux 6.12.41+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
| Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=es_AR:es
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
| Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
| LSM: AppArmor: enabled
|
| Versions of packages r-base depends on:
| ii r-base-core 4.5.0-3
| ii r-recommended 4.5.0-3
|
| Versions of packages r-base recommends:
| ii r-base-html 4.5.0-3
| ii r-doc-html 4.5.0-3
|
| Versions of packages r-base suggests:
| pn elpa-ess <none>
| pn r-doc-info | r-doc-pdf <none>
|
| -- no debconf information
|
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dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
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