In my case I am running the desktop app under linu...

# multiplatform

[Fabio Beoni]

In my case I am running the desktop app under linux... So I presume the path "/home/me/notes-db" should be okay

[Jeff Lockhart]

Yes, this path should work just fine for creating a database if you're only targeting JVM or native non-mobile platforms. Once you have the libicu dependency installed on Linux, I'd expect your code to work.