[chandler-users] Chandler 0.7.6 deb file problems on Ubuntu 8.04

[Grant Baillie]

On 20 May, 2008, at 14:04, Hilario J. Montoliu wrote:

> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>> The deb won't install on my system. The deb installer complains  
>> libicu36 is
>> an invalid dependency.
>>
>
> Yes, it seems that libicu36 exists only ubuntu 7.10 (the environment
> where chandler was compiled and packaged), while in ubuntu 8.04 the
> package is named libicu38.
>
> You can download libicu38 from gutsy's repos and install it on hardy  
> at
> your own risk [1].
>
> Since I upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy and the libicu36 package was kept
> I'm almost sure that you wont have any problem if you install that
> dependency [1] directly.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a problem from ubuntu or from chandler,  
> however
> you might want to report this issue to chandler's bugzilla because
> it might be a stopper for people trying to use chandler desktop
> on a fresh hardy install.

Hmm ... we have a bug about upgrading to ICU 3.8 here:

https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11424

However, it seems to me that if 7.x (Gutsy) and 8.04 (Hardy) require  
different ICU libraries, then we would have to create different .deb  
files for the two releases.

--Grant