RE: Missing libtiff4 in installing NSLS-II EPICS packages on Ubuntu Trusty

[Mark Rivers <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>]

Hi Iain,

 

What do you plan to use areaDetector for?  R1-9-1 is over 5 years old.  Does it have what you need? 

 

Mark

 

 

From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov <tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Iain Marcuson
Sent: Friday, July 6, 2018 2:46 PM
To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: Missing libtiff4 in installing NSLS-II EPICS packages on Ubuntu Trusty

 

I am attempting to install EPICS from the NSLS-II packages at https://epics.nsls2.bnl.gov/debian/, specifically using the wheezy repo.  When I try to install the package epics-areadetector, I get the following error:

 

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

 

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

epics-areadetector : Depends: libareadetector1.9 but it is not going to be installed

                      Depends: libtiff4 (> 3.9.5-3~) but it is not installable

                      Recommends: edm-areadetector (= 1.9.1+dfsg1-1) but it is not going to be installed

                      Recommends: libareadetector1.9 (= 1.9.1+dfsg1-1) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

 

When I look in aptitude, I can install libtiff4-dev, but the package description seems to indicate that libtiff4 is deprecated.

 

What steps can I take to install EPICS on this computer?

 

Thank you,

 

 

Iain Marcuson

Software Engineer, Sydor Technologies

585.278.1168 | www.SydorTechnologies.com

Skype: Iain.Marcuson@sydorinstruments.com