Re: package containing icu-config

[Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 05:49:29PM +0000, Mick Bert wrote:
> Trying to compile a software, the configure fails complaining for missing
> icu-config. I have already installed icu-devtools and libicu-dev. Which
> package should I install?
> 
> Are there a way to query which package contains a particular file (maybe
> through apt-get or apt-cache, or even a service on the web)?

apt-file search icu-config

But you won't find it since it was deprecated upstream and you are
supposed to use pkg-config now with libicu.  icu-config wasn't multiarch
compatible it seems.  Most software using libicu seems to ahve updated
by now to using pkg-config.

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Len Sorensen