not possible to import libtiff

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$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
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$ apt-cache policy python-libtiff
python-libtiff:
  Installed: 0.3.0~svn78-3.1
  Candidate: 0.3.0~svn78-3.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.0~svn78-3.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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Trace back is:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
    from .libtiff_ctypes import libtiff, TIFF
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/libtiff_ctypes.py", line 65, in <module>
    raise ValueError('Failed to find TIFF header file (may be need to run: sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev)')
ValueError: Failed to find TIFF header file (may be need to run: sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev)
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However libtiff4-dev is installed (as is libtiff5-dev)

It seems that the header file tiff.h is now located in /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/ rather than /usr/include.

I therefore changed the code so that line 63 in "libtiff_ctypes.py" accounts for this. libtiff then finds the tiff.h file.

However..
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>>> import libtiff
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
    from .libtiff_ctypes import libtiff, TIFF
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libtiff/libtiff_ctypes.py", line 79, in <module>
    value = eval(value)
  File "<string>", line 1
    (1
     ^
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing
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Which proves to be due to line 337 in tiff.h.
#define COCODINGMETHODS_T4_1D (1 << 1)

It seems that libtiff_ctypes.py does not parse the values in the header properly when a bitshift is present. I tried manually replacing the relavent values using e.g.:
 if name == " COCODINGMETHODS_T4_1D": value = "(1 << 1)"

However, another error is thrown latter during import.

And that is all I can manage right now..

[rdks (rdks-deactivatedaccount)]

The problem seems to be that the the version in 14.04 (0.3.0~svn78-3.1) doesn't support libtiff5 yet, but libtiff4 isn't provided any longer.
There was an bug report on that in the upstream project before: https://code.google.com/p/pylibtiff/issues/detail?id=30

I just build the latest version of pylibtiff (svn107) on 14.04 x86_64 and can confirm, that this issue doesn't exist in that version any more.

So the proper solution here would be to upgrade the python-libtiff package to a more recent version that supports libtiff5.

[rdks (rdks-deactivatedaccount)]

I contacted the Debian MED packaging team, who currently are the maintainers of this package, and requested an update to a newer versions that supports libtiff5.