Error installing aardtools on Ubuntu 11.10

[pyroshroom]

Everything goes smoothly following the examples on the website until the step where you have to install aard-tools with "pip install aardtools" where you get this error:

layoutengine.cpp: In function ‘void _init_layoutengine(PyObject*)’:

layoutengine.cpp:551:5: error: ‘kTypoFlagKern’ is not a member of ‘icu_44::LayoutEngine’

layoutengine.cpp:552:5: error: ‘kTypoFlagLiga’ is not a member of ‘icu_44::LayoutEngine’

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

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Command /home/user/env-aard/bin/python -c "import setuptools;file='/home/user/env-aard/build/PyICU/setup.py';exec(compile(open(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), file, 'exec'))" install --single-version-externally-managed --record /tmp/pip-4wWS0O-record/install-record.txt --install-headers /home/user/env-aard/include/site/python2.7 failed with error code 1

Any advice on what could be going wrong with the installation?

[itkach]

Looks like latest PyICU (1.3) no longer compiles with ICU 4.4 Earlier versions work fine though. Install PyICU 1.2 first and then aardtools:

 pip install PyICU==1.2
 pip install aardtools

[pyroshroom]

Yup, that fixed it, aardtools installed properly, thanks!

[galaxor]

That didn't work for me, but I was able to get aardtools installed by installing ubuntu's pyicu:

Apparently, this installs version "1.1.1ubuntu", so maybe something like pip install PyICU==1.1.1 would work.

[arnlaugsson]

pip install PyICU==1.2

Worked for me as well!

[alexeicolin]

Filed a report upstream: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13074