Higher version of libicu (6x) installed on OpenSuSE Leap than accepted by dotnet-runtime

[git-gone]

Problem encountered on https://dotnet.microsoft.com/learn/dotnet/hello-world-tutorial/install
Operating System: Linux openSUSE Leap

installing as per instructions on page above fail at step to install .net SDK, Added all Microsoft public keys and downloaded repo files as recommended on the web page whose URL appears above

sudo zypper install dotnet-sdk-2.2
[sudo] password for jamest: 
Retrieving repository 'Packman Repository' metadata .................................................................................[done]
Building repository 'Packman Repository' cache ......................................................................................[done]
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

Problem: nothing provides libicu52_1 needed by dotnet-runtime-deps-2.2-2.2.3-1.x86_64
 Solution 1: do not install dotnet-sdk-2.2-2.2.105-1.x86_64
 Solution 2: break dotnet-runtime-deps-2.2-2.2.3-1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c] (c): ^Cjamest@irrelevant:~/Downloads> 

In OpenSuSE, there appears to beno RPM package that provides libicu at version 52. Is it likely that a version of dotnet-runtime will be available for download that will be accept libicu6x in place of libicu52?

Many thanks in advance & best Regards

git-gone

[leecow]

Can you share the output of cat /etc/os-release? Here's what I see on a fresh image ...

d2e58356aeaa:/ # cat /etc/os-release
NAME="openSUSE Leap"
VERSION="42.3"
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="42.3"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 42.3"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:42.3"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"

d2e58356aeaa:/ # zypper search libicu
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S  | Name               | Summary                                                    | Type
---+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+--------
   | libicu-devel       | International Components for Unicode (development files)   | package
   | libicu-devel-32bit | International Components for Unicode (development files)   | package
   | libicu-doc         | International Components for Unicode  (html documentation) | package
i+ | libicu52_1         | International Components for Unicode                       | package
   | libicu52_1-32bit   | International Components for Unicode                       | package
i  | libicu52_1-data    | International Components for Unicode                       | package
```

[SvenjaReissaus]

I am having the same issue here, there's a higher version of libicu already installed:
$ zypper install libicu

Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'libicu' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
'libicu60_2' providing 'libicu' is already installed.
Resolving package dependencies...

Nothing to do.

Made a clean install of openSUSE Leap 15.0:
$ cat /etc/os-release

NAME="openSUSE Leap"
VERSION="15.0"
ID="opensuse-leap"
ID_LIKE="suse opensuse"
VERSION_ID="15.0"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 15.0"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:15.0"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"

And the repository search:
$ zypper search libicu

Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name               | Summary                               | Type   
--+--------------------+---------------------------------------+--------
  | libicu-devel       | Development files for the ICU library | package
  | libicu-devel-32bit | Development files for the ICU library | package
  | libicu-doc         | Documentation for the ICU library     | package
i | libicu60_2         | International Components for Unicode  | package
  | libicu60_2-32bit   | International Components for Unicode  | package
  | libicu60_2-bedata  | Rule databases and tables for ICU     | package
i | libicu60_2-ledata  | Rule databases and tables for ICU     | package

[karelz]

@tarekgh @janvorli any thoughts or advice?

[SvenjaReissaus]

Perhaps this workaround from https://github.com/dotnet/core-setup/issues/4413#issuecomment-417505779 is one you could take a look at. I didn't tried it, as I installed ignoring the warning (yet it does not seems to break nor print warnings) but I'll give it a try.

$ dotnet --info

.NET Core SDK (reflecting any global.json):
 Version:   2.2.105
 Commit:    7cecb35b92

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     opensuse-leap
 OS Version:  15.0
 OS Platform: Linux
 RID:         linux-x64
 Base Path:   /usr/share/dotnet/sdk/2.2.105/

Host (useful for support):
  Version: 2.2.3
  Commit:  6b8ad509b6

.NET Core SDKs installed:
  2.2.105 [/usr/share/dotnet/sdk]

.NET Core runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.2.3 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.All]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.2.3 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.2.3 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

To install additional .NET Core runtimes or SDKs:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

[tarekgh]

CC @rakeshsinghranchi

Why we have hard dependency on ICU 52? if the system already have any more recent version of ICU, we should be ok. it looks the package dependency should get fixed.

[karelz]

@tarekgh note that @rakeshsinghranchi's responsibilities in the space were transfered to @dagood

[tarekgh]

thanks @karelz for the info. @dagood may help then here. should this be moved to core-setup?

[dagood]

Issue moved to dotnet/core-setup #5628 via ZenHub