Description of problem: Openoffice rpm packages do not have depency for libicu which is mandatory to even start the application. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-calc-2.3.0-6.11.fc8 openoffice.org-writer-2.3.0-6.11.fc8 openoffice.org-core-2.3.0-6.11.fc8 Fedora 8 with latest updates. How reproducible: Fresh and minimal installation of FC8 without openoffice or any subcomponents installed. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install openoffice.org-core, openoffice.org-writer & openoffice.org-calc via pirut Actual results: Launching of oowriter fails, shell output: [jani@jani-desktop ~]$ oowriter /usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/swriter.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.38: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Expected results: Openoffice should start Additional info: Installing latest libicu will solve this error.
It does have the correct requires, whatever went wrong for you is not due to a missing require, but perhaps e.g. due to some *other* bogus icu providing libraries. rpm -q --requires openoffice.org-core|grep icu libicui18n.so.38 libicule.so.38 libicuuc.so.38 what does e.g. rpm -q --whatprovides libicui18n.so.38 say ?
[jani@jani-desktop ~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides libicui18n.so.38 libicu-3.8-5.fc8 [jani@jani-desktop ~]$ The problem might be in pirut? As i actually remember now that i did not choose openoffice.org-core, but only writer and calc and core package was show in added depencies dialog and then i installed libicu manually after i noticed that oowriter/calc didnt start..