ImportError: libicui18n.so.58: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[myrainbowandsky]

Ubuntu 22.04
I met this and conda install pyicu, I have this again.
Is it possible to continue, as this is the fifth time to do import data.

2023-11-13 16:00:34: Create functions (1st pass)
2023-11-13 16:00:34: Create tables
2023-11-13 16:00:53: Create functions (2nd pass)
2023-11-13 16:00:53: Create table triggers
2023-11-13 16:00:53: Create partition tables
2023-11-13 16:00:57: Create functions (3rd pass)
2023-11-13 16:00:57: Initialise tables
2023-11-13 16:00:59: Load data into placex table
...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................2023-11-13 16:12:57: Setting up tokenizer


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/nominatim", line 12, in <module>
    exit(cli.nominatim(module_dir='/usr/local/lib/nominatim/module',
  File "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-python/nominatim/cli.py", line 226, in nominatim
    return get_set_parser().run(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-python/nominatim/cli.py", line 121, in run
    return args.command.run(args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-python/nominatim/clicmd/setup.py", line 124, in run
    tokenizer = self._get_tokenizer(args.continue_at, args.config)
  File "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-python/nominatim/clicmd/setup.py", line 190, in _get_tokenizer
    return tokenizer_factory.create_tokenizer(config)
  File "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-python/nominatim/tokenizer/factory.py", line 67, in create_tokenizer
    tokenizer_module = _import_tokenizer(module_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-python/nominatim/tokenizer/factory.py", line 44, in _import_tokenizer
    return importlib.import_module('nominatim.tokenizer.' + name + '_tokenizer')
  File "/home/lawrencexu/anaconda3/envs/Nominatim/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 688, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 883, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-python/nominatim/tokenizer/icu_tokenizer.py", line 24, in <module>
    from nominatim.tokenizer.icu_rule_loader import ICURuleLoader
  File "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-python/nominatim/tokenizer/icu_rule_loader.py", line 15, in <module>
    from icu import Transliterator
  File "/home/lawrencexu/anaconda3/envs/Nominatim/lib/python3.10/site-packages/icu/__init__.py", line 37, in <module>
    from ._icu_ import *
ImportError: libicui18n.so.58: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[lonvia]

Looks like the version of your globally installed libicu changed since you've set up the conda environment. Try deinstalling and reinstalling pyicu in the environment.

As a general rule, I wouldn't recommend mixing Ubuntu's libicu with a installation of pyicu from package managers like pip or conda. Use python3-icu which comes with Ubuntu. The drawback is that you have to allow access to global Python packages from your virtual environment.

You can continue the import with nominatim import --continue load-data at the point where you are. Usually you want to verify that your entire tooclhain works by importing a small extract like Monaco first. You can still do that. Create a second project directory and set the .env to point to a different database. Once the small import is done, you can throw away the test database and continue with the original import.

[myrainbowandsky]

Thank you. After pip install PyICU==2.11it is OK now. I strongly suggest making a requirements.txt. As python library missing errors always raised.