Error installing OpenCV on Ubuntu 16.04

Question

I have being trying to install OpenCV on Ubuntu 16.04 unsing several tutorials and i always end up with an error. This is the last one i've got following this tutorial:

https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/wiki/Ubuntu-16.04-or-15.10-OpenCV-3.1-Installation-Guide

What can i do?

[ 48%] Linking CXX executable ../../bin/opencv_test_viz
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFReadDirectory@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFIsTiled@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFDefaultStripSize@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFReadTile@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFWriteScanline@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `_TIFFfree@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFGetField@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFScanlineSize@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFTileSize@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFClose@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFClientOpen@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFGetFieldDefaulted@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFNumberOfDirectories@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFOpen@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFReadRGBAImage@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFSetField@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFSetWarningHandler@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFSetErrorHandler@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `_TIFFmalloc@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFSetDirectory@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFReadScanline@LIBTIFF_4.0'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkIOImage-6.2.so.6.2: undefined reference to `TIFFNumberOfTiles@LIBTIFF_4.0'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
modules/viz/CMakeFiles/opencv_test_viz.dir/build.make:236: recipe for target 'bin/opencv_test_viz' failed
make[2]: *** [bin/opencv_test_viz] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:3306: recipe for target 'modules/viz/CMakeFiles/opencv_test_viz.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [modules/viz/CMakeFiles/opencv_test_viz.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:160: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Answer 1

Try make clean ,and then again execute the make command. Generally after one failure if you try the make command without cleaning the earlier installation, you get errors.

Answer 2

According to this, OpenCV needs libtiff4, which Ubuntu has dropped, i.e. the package that replaced it is libtiff5-dev.

As a temporary workaround you can specify -DBUILD_TIFF=ON on cmake when configuring, in order to build the libtiff4 version that is distributed with OpenCV.

This worked for me in Ubuntu 16.04, with OpenCV 3.2.1.

Answer 3

Looks like you need to install/reinstall libpng.

Answer 4

I followed the same tutorial for install opencv and I had the same problem. This works for me:

sudo apt-get autoremove libtiff5-dev

sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev

Enter the opencv directory.

cd build/ (I guess that is already created,otherwise create it)

cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -D WITH_TBB=ON -D WITH_V4L=ON -D WITH_QT=ON -D WITH_OPENGL=ON ..

make

then continue with the tutorial.

Answer 5

I had similar issue. I was building openCV 3.3.0 together with opencv_contrib repository. It turned out that including the flag -D BUILD_TIFF=ON with cmake command resolved the issue as pointed out by gevang already.

Ps.: Since I'm only acknowledging the solution provided by gevang, this should rather a be comment instead of an answer, but I'm missing the corresponding rights. Sorry for that.