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Osama Ahmaro
Asked: 2011-05-21 09:27:58 +0800 CST

How do I install libtiff.so.3?

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When I try to run Maya from the terminal, I get:

error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

How do I solve this?

Note: Maya is a third-party software.

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6 Answers

  1. Repositories for 16.04, 16.10, 17.04 and 17.10 have libtiff5 (most likely included in installation) which provides libtiff.so.5 but not libtiff.so.3. This causes problems for applications that look for libtiff.so.3 as detailed in this bug report

    First do

    sudo apt install libtiff5

    You will likely find it is already installed. However, if not, see if this fixes the problem.

    If not, try this workaround: To fool applications into using libtiff.so.5 instead of libtiff.so.3, you can create a symlink in the same directory named libtiff.so.3 pointing to libtiff.so.5. This may not work for all applications, since the libraries are not exactly the same.

    To do this in a 32-bit system enter:

    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.3

    In a 64-bit system it would be:

    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.3

    If unsure, you can find the library on your system like this:

    locate -b libtiff

    Then you will be able to get the path correct (if you just installed libtiff5, you have to first do sudo updatedb for locate to find it)

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  2. Best Answer

    You're missing the TIFF library. apt-cache search libtiff shows packages, you'll need libtiff4:

    sudo apt-get install libtiff4
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  3. I'm running in to the same error with a different program. I'm using Oneiric (Xubuntu 11.10)

    $ sudo apt-get install libtiff3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libtiff3

    Libtiff4 is already installed on this system, and clearly doesn't provide libtiff.so.3.

    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3

    I couldn't find libtiff.so.4 there, but I did find it in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/. So the command I ran was:

    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.3

    And it worked for the game I was trying to play (http://www.happypenguin.org/show?interLOGIC)

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  4. If Maya was not built on your machine (i.e. installed from a binary) then you need libtiff3, libtiff4 will not fix your issue as it includes "libtiff.so.4", not "libtiff.so.3". Or you could build Maya from source on your machine.

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  5. You can create a soft link:

    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3
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  6. Install from source

    wget http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-3.9.6.zip
unzip tiff-3.9.6.zip
cd tiff-3.9.6
./configure
make
sudo make install

    Tested on Ubuntu 14.04.

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