I can't install libtiff on my 64-bit Ubuntu

Question

When I try to install libtiff on my 64-bit Ubuntu, I get the following error:

sudo apt-get install libtiff
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package libtiff is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libtiff' has no installation candidate
ubuntu@ip-10-119-97-123:/mnt$ libtiff-memcached

libtiff-memcached: command not found

Solution 1

libtiff has no installation candidate. Your choices are:

sudo apt-get install libtiff4

for Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, and 13.10 ... or

sudo apt install libtiff5

for Ubuntu 14.04-20.04

Solution 2

If like me, you may be looking for the utils:

sudo apt-get install libtiff-tools

Solution 3

I had a similar issue. So what solved it for me was to do:

sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev

Solution 4

libtiff4 was upto 13.10 and 14.04 provides libtiff5.
To install it nonetheless, go to the download page and select libtiff4_3.9.7-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb. Open terminal and, in the folder you downloaded the file, write:

sudo dpkg -i libtiff4_3.9.7-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

libtiff5 and libtiff4 are co-installable, so it will not write over the files of libtiff5.

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Comments

[Frikster]

When I do that it tells me "libtiff5 is already the newest version" but then when look what happens when I do this: >>> from libtiff import TIFF Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named 'libtiff'

[Frikster]

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[Aaron Franke]

Can I symlink libtiff4 to libtiff5? A program I'm trying to run needs libtiff4.

[karel]

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