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Can't install pyicu due to 'icu-config'


I'm trying to install pyicu for python 3.5 on mac according to this link https://struggley.wordpress.com/2015/07/14/installation-pyicu-on-mac-osx-yosemite/

However, when I excute pip3 install pyicu, I got this error

Collecting pyicu
Using cached PyICU-1.9.5.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/private/var/folders/70/jlxmpp0n003805pmw6tfc0r80000gn/T/pip-build-7eusuic1/pyicu/setup.py", line 11, in <module>
    ICU_VERSION = subprocess.check_output(('icu-config', '--version')).strip()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.5.2_3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 626, in check_output
    **kwargs).stdout
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.5.2_3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 693, in run
    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.5.2_3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 947, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.5.2_3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 1551, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'icu-config'

I guess it's because I didn't set the path for icu-config correctly. I think the following two may be the icu-config files.

/usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/58.1/bin/icu-config
/usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/58.1/share/man/man1/icu-config.1

However, I have no idea how to set the path to it. Besides, I don't know why I got this error while the tutorial can work smoothly.


Solution

  • I had the same problem. This worked for me

    brew install intltool icu4c gettext
    brew link icu4c gettext --force
    CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/icu4c/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib pip3 install pyicu
    

    Source: https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/34170