Ubuntu required dependencies for Swift

[yxckjhasdkjh]

On Ubuntu 16.04, the required dependencies listed on this page, i.e.

$ sudo apt-get install clang libicu-dev

don't seem to be enough.

E.g.

vagrant@ubuntu-xenial:~$ swift-4.1-RELEASE-ubuntu16.04/usr/bin/swift
/home/vagrant/swift-4.1-RELEASE-ubuntu16.04/usr/bin/lldb: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

vagrant@ubuntu-xenial:~$ swift-4.1-RELEASE-ubuntu16.04/usr/bin/swift test
/home/vagrant/swift-4.1-RELEASE-ubuntu16.04/usr/bin/swift-test: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Tested with this vagrant box.

Can the list of required dependencies be updated with whatever is necessary? These kinds of issues are major stumbling blocks for people wanting to use Swift on Linux.

[IanPartridge]

The extra packages you need are libcurl4-openssl-dev and libpython2.7.

Libcurl is needed by Foundation. It seems that the REPL needs Libpython, I don't know why.

[yxckjhasdkjh]

Thanks! It would be useful to add that to the documentation.

Also: Foundation can't be imported in the REPL by default. For that to work, it has to be called with

swift -I path/to/swift/usr/lib/swift/clang/include/

This is also probably worth mentioning, until it is fixed.

[IanPartridge]

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[tkremenek (Ted Kremenek)]

@IanPartridge

The extra packages you need are libcurl4-openssl-dev and libpython2.7 .

To confirm, change the instructions to this:

$ sudo apt-get install clang libicu-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libpython2.7

[acharseth (Arne)]

I have installed Swift according to Swift.org - Download Swift including libpython2.7.
When I run the command swift I get the error message:
/usr/share/swift/usr/bin/lldb: error while loading shared libraries: libpython3.7m.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How do I fix this?

[jonprescott (Jonathan Prescott)]

You need Python 3.7, not 2.7, according to the lldb message.

[acharseth (Arne)]

Thanks, I installed python3.7 and python3.7-dev and now it works!