Dnx on Coreclr not running on Ubuntu 15.10

[ghost]

On a fresh Ubuntu 15.10 install, and following http://dotnet.github.io/core/getting-started/ guide, dnx and dnu command produce no output when coreclr runtime (beta8 and rc1 dev feed) is selected.

[analogrelay]

Can you try running the following and pasting the output here?

DNX_TRACE=1 dnx --version

FYI: The only officially supported Linux platform for beta8 is Ubuntu 14.04. We will be adding other distros, but it may just be that Ubuntu 15.10 changes something we depend on right now. We'll still take a look and see what we can do, but our priority is Ubuntu 14.04.

[ghost]

Same result for beta8 and rc1-15838
Loaded module: dnx.coreclr.so
Found export: CallApplicationMain

Unhandled Exception:
Cannot print exception string because Exception.ToString() failed.

[moozzyk]

libicu is missing

[analogrelay]

Yeah, those instructions are out of date and need to be updated for beta8, I suggest using the more up-to-date instructions here: https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/getting-started/installing-on-linux.html

Specifically, you need to install icu. Running sudo apt-get install libunwind8 gettext libssl-dev libcurl3-dev zlib1g libicu-dev should get everything you need.

[analogrelay]

I filed a PR to update those docs.

[ghost]

I have followed those too, same result. libicu-dev and libicu55 are installed

[analogrelay]

It's possible that Ubuntu 15.10 has an incompatible version of libicu then. Unfortunately libicu does not have a stable ABI between releases, so changes to that break binary compatibility.

[analogrelay]

Yeah, it looks like Ubuntu 15.10 uses libicu55 but Ubuntu 14.04 uses libicu52. These are not binary-compatible releases so there will need to be an updated version of the CoreCLR to support 15.04. Since 14.04 is the current Ubuntu LTS release, that is the target version for CoreCLR presently so I suggest you use that version for now.

[analogrelay]

(FYI, it looks like Ubuntu 15.04 does have the correct version of libicu, so you could try that)

[ghost]

Yes, It's working on 15.04

[ghost]

I just installed libicu52 manually from http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/amd64/libicu52/download and now it's working on 15.10

[ghost]

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu52_52.1-8ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
dpkg -i libicu52_52.1-8ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb

[analogrelay]

Cool! Good to know :)

[ghost]

Thank you for your help !