gs: /MATLAB/ /bin/glnxa64/libtiff.so.5: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libgs.so.9)

Question

When I use in Matlab

!epstopdf "output.eps" --outfile=output.pdf

then I get one of the following message:

gs: /opt/MATLAB/R2016b/bin/glnxa64/libtiff.so.5: no version information available  (required by /usr/lib/libgs.so.9)
gs: /opt/sw/x86_64/generic/Matlab/R2016b/bin/glnxa64/libtiff.so.5: no version information available (required by /usr/lib64/libgs.so.9)
gs: /opt/sw/x86_64/generic/Matlab/R2017b/bin/glnxa64/libtiff.so.5: no version information available (required by /usr/lib64/libgs.so.9)

I am using Ghostscript 9.18 (default version of Ubuntu 16.04). (Same Problem with Ghostscript 9.07)

Solution

no version information available means that you have an old version (of Ghostscript) see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/156387/6747994

Therefore you have to update to Ghostscript 9.23 (or newer): https://askubuntu.com/a/942995/676490

Due to the fact that Ubuntu 16.04 offers Ghostscript 9.18 and Ubuntu 18.04 offers Ghostscript 9.26 (earlier it was 9.22), you have to

• Download the source code from https://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html (direct link to gs 9.53.3)
• uncompress it (f.e. tar xvf ghostscript-9.53.3.tar.gz)
• go into this folder
• sudo ./configure
• sudo make install
• restart Terminal
• Test with gs -v which Version you have