Linux How-to Install Icui18n/ICU-50 Libraries

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The Icui18n/ICU-50 Library is Not Available at this time on the Some Linux Distros Repository so to Get Installed you will Need to Download and Install it from Source.

Prerequisites: make, gcc and gcc-c++ Packages

  1. DownloadICU-50 Source Code 
    cd /usr/src
su
mkdir icu
cd icu
svn export http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/tags/release-50-1-1/
  2. Installing ICU-50 Library 
    cd release*/source
./configure
make
make install
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libicui18n.so.50 /usr/lib
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libicudata.so.50 /usr/lib
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libicuuc.so.50 /usr/lib