What's the proper way to get dependancies for bin install files?

[nos217]

I downloaded OpenTTD, but it's binary will not run and gives this error:

./openttd: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.38: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I figured that one of the dependancies is this "libicui". So what is the "correct" way of installing this dependancy? Stupid question. Thanks.

[birkett]

Via your distros package manager.

[nos217]

Yeah I thought so, but it doesn't seem to be in the repos, do I just use -Q (in pacman)? It allows you to link it directly to the file on the internet, but I'm not sure if that allows updating etc. Thanks.

[birkett]

Yes, allow pacman to install it from the given sources. If the package provides a link to package-current.tar.gz (or whatever the name may be), use that. It will allow you to easilly stay up to date.

[nos217]

Thanks a lot, I'll try it now.

[PvtCupcakes]

I know that with yum you can do:
yum whatprovides libicui18n.so.38

And it tells you the packages that contain that file, pacman might have something similar.

[nos217]

Sorry for the delay. Birkett, that worked perfectly, thanks. PvtCupcakes: Thanks for the tip, I'll read the man pages for pacman again, I might have missed that :P thanks again.

[PvtCupcakes]

Oh, I just looked at the man page for Pacman, and it would be:
pacman -o <file>
or
pacman --owns <file>

[nos217]

Ah cool, cheers :P.