Error installing OpenCV on Ubuntu 16.04

Question

I am trying to install OpenCV on Ubuntu 16.04, not counting a few tutorials, and I always get an error. This is the last thing I got after 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

I followed the same tutorial to 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 assume it has already been 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 manual.

Answer 2

this, OpenCV libtiff4, Ubuntu , .. , , libtiff5-dev.

-DBUILD_TIFF=ON cmake , libtiff4, OpenCV.

Ubuntu 16.04, OpenCV 3.2.1.

Answer 3

It looks like you need to install / reinstall libpng.

Answer 4

Try make cleanit and then run make again. Usually after a single failure, if you try to execute the make command without clearing the previous installation, you get errors.