This must be a 14.04 thing, I didn’t have a problem with ICU on 15.10. 

- mish

> On Dec 4, 2015, at 3:35 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dun...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 
>> <mailto: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 
>> <http://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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