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 was triggered for me after a brew upgrade and brew update ran. I was able to fix it by simply re-installing the two items flagged as problems (which made sense to me):

brew reinstall node
brew reinstall icu4c

Answer 2

None of the above worked for me. I'm using High Sierra.

What fixed it for me was brew upgrade

Answer 3

For me it was apparently a problem with the icu4c installation from brew.

brew reinstall icu4c

will reinstall icu4c.

if you don't have it installed,

brew install icu4c

Answer 4

In my case, brew upgrade node resolve the problem :)

Answer 5

First I uninstall node and icu4c, force to uninstall all versions

brew uninstall --force --ignore-dependencies node icu4c

After install version 8 of Node

brew install node@8

If it already install, please just upgrade

brew upgrade node@8

And enter

node -v

v8.11.1

Answer 6

it seems like your icu4u Reference path is not set properly

first check you might instal icu4c or not by putting below comment in comment promt

brew info icu4c

or else reinstall

brew reinstall icu4c

If you need to have this software first in your PATH run:

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/icu4c/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

hope This might help !!!!!