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I recently updated from ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 LTS. I was using Smoldyn, a particle-based simulation package, but since the update it doesn't work anymore. After typing 

smoldyn

I get the following error message:

smoldyn: error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Apparently, he cannot find libtiff.so.4. On the other hand, the command

locate libtiff.so.4

gives me:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.4
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.4.3.6

So it seems that libtiff is correctly installed. Do you have any idea what is wrong here? Why is smoldyn not running? Many thanks in advance!

My system:

  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz × 8
  • Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CEDAR
  • OS type: 64 bit
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Reset to default
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14.04 provides libtiff5 but not libtiff4 (up to saucy 13.10).

To install the 13.10 version, go to the amd64 download page on launchpad and select libtiff4_3.9.7-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb.

Now open a Terminal with Ctrl+Alt+t and type in the folder where you downloaded the deb file:

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

Reinstalling the old lib should solve your problem.

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