Thanks Dale, this is a good suggestion we will look into it.

 - Daniel

> On Dec 4, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Musser, Dale <musse...@missouri.edu> wrote:
> 
> I installed Swift on Ubuntu 14.04 according to the instructions on 
> https://swift.org/getting-started <https://swift.org/getting-started>/ and 
> ran into the following when running “swift”:
> 
> error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.52: cannot open shared 
> object file: No such file or directory
> 
> This was resolved by doing:
> 
> sudo apt-get install libicu-dev
> 
> I think it would be a good idea to add this (and any other dependencies and 
> how to resolve them) on the getting started page on swift.org.
> 
> Students (a good audience for open source swift) are likely to run into this 
> problem and it would be good to make it as easy as possible for them to get 
> swift up and running.  The Ubuntu 14.04 was an instance I installed on Linode 
> that had been set up as a web server and I did not as a matter of course have 
> libicu-dev installed.  And, googling  libicuuc.so.52 or the error didn’t 
> immediately get me to the package leading me to believe users make have to 
> work to find how to resolve the missing library.
> 
> Dale
> 
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