Ubuntu 14.04: cutechess-cli doesn't work

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nionita
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Ubuntu 14.04: cutechess-cli doesn't work

Post by nionita »

Hi,

Is somebody using cutechess-cli on Ubuntu 14.04?

I have one version (binaries, 0.6 I think) which works fine on Ubuntu 12.04, but when I try it on Ubuntu 14.04 I get the error:

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/home/nicu/cutechess-cli/cutechess-cli: error while loading shared libraries: li
bicui18n.so.48: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Obviously the library is missing, probably having a higher version in the newer Ubuntu release.

Has someone a binary compiled on the newer release?

Nicu
Sery
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Re: Ubuntu 14.04: cutechess-cli doesn't work

Post by Sery »

I've had also some problems in Ubuntu 14.04 with cutechess libs. I don't remember exactly how I solve them, maybe a binaries will help. Link for download: https://yadi.sk/d/U2IpdLrFfbd2Q
jordanbray
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Re: Ubuntu 14.04: cutechess-cli doesn't work

Post by jordanbray »

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    ldd `which cutechess-cli`
Will tell you exactly which libraries you're missing. (Clearly libbicuil8n.so.48, but possibly more.)

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    sudo apt-get install apt-file
    apt-file search libbicuil8n.so.48
should tell you what package that file is located in.

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    sudo ldconfig
may be needed to update your library cache, but apt-get should manage it for you.
nionita
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Re: Ubuntu 14.04: cutechess-cli doesn't work

Post by nionita »

Sergey, thanks for the binary!

I had just to install the libqtcore4 and now it works fine.

Nicu
nionita
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Re: Ubuntu 14.04: cutechess-cli doesn't work

Post by nionita »

Jordan, thanks for the information. With the binaries from Sergey and your info I could see what it's needed and could make it work.

By the way, in Ubuntu 14.04 the libicui18n is already in version 52, I guess it could not just replace version 48 and work. I didn't try this tough...

Nicu