Installing node with brew fails on Mac OS Sierra

Question

I'm trying to install node with homebrew on macOS Sierra. I run

 brew install node

After a seemingly successful install I get the following when trying to run node:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.58.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/node
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

Answer 1

This is the series of incantations that eventually worked for me based on this link suggested by @robertklep and @vovkasm.

brew uninstall --force node
brew uninstall icu4c && brew install icu4c
brew unlink icu4c && brew link icu4c --force
brew install node

I'm not sure if they're all needed, but given that I can't get my machine in the previous state... I'll just leave this info here, maybe it'll be useful for somebody else.

Answer 2

brew uninstall --force node
brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies icu4c
brew unlink icu4c && brew link icu4c --force
brew install node

Answer 3

Upgrading node fixed a problem.

brew upgrade node 

Answer 4

Try restarting your machine. That helped me.

Answer 5

Nothing worked for me but running this worked

brew link --overwrite node

Answer 6

I found a solution that works great over here. I'll briefly give the commands below.

First, cd into the homebrew formula directory:

cd $(brew --prefix)/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula

Git log:

git log --follow icu4c.rb

Choose the commit hash that matches the version you need. I needed version 61.1, thus chose the 6d9815 commit:

git checkout -b icu4c-61.1 6d9815

Reinstall:

brew reinstall ./icu4c.rb

Switch:

brew switch icu4c 61.1

That fixed it for me.

Credit: hanxue