icu4c-opt (International Components for Unicode) The International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries provide robust and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms. This version is installed to /opt/ to provide newer ICU libraries on Slackware stable. This version of the library is installed to /opt, to help build software that requires a newer version than the one available in the Slackware base system. To build against this version of the library, you have to configure your build system's includes search path to find `*.h' files in /opt/icu/usr/include/unicode, and set RPATH to link against the `*.so' shared libraries installed in /opt/icu/usr/lib64.