icu56 on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: February 08,2025

1. Install "icu56" effortlessly via AUR with the help of a helper(YAY)

a. Install YAY (https://github.com/Jguer/yay)


    
        
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                sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si
            
                    
    
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b. Install icu56 on Arch using YAY

* (Optional) Uninstall icu56 on Arch using YAY

2. Manually Install "icu56" via AUR

a. Ensure you have the base development tools and git installed with:


    
        
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                sudo pacman -S --needed
            
                        
                base-devel git
            
                    
    
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b. Clone icu56's git locally


    
        
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                git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/icu56.git 
            
                        
                ~/icu56
            
                    
    
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c. Go to ~/icu56 folder and install it


   
    
        
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                cd
            
                        
                ~/icu56
            
                    
    
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                makepkg -si
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the icu56 package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 1217656
Name: icu56
PackageBaseID: 110919
PackageBase: icu56
Version: 56.2-1
Description: International Components for Unicode library
URL: http://www.icu-project.org/
NumVotes: 5
Popularity: 0.277555
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: ali.molaei
Submitter: tirip
FirstSubmitted: 1462410052
LastModified: 1677317479
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/icu56.tar.gz