Re: jessie: `evince`, `atril`, `okular` unable to open PDFs; "libtiff.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

[Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for your response!

Alex Mestiashvili <alex@biotec.tu-dresden.de> writes:

> On 05/20/2015 08:44 AM, Alexis wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Context: jessie x86_64 [+updates], recently upgraded from 
> > wheezy.
> >
> > i've started having a strange issue where none of `evince`, 
> > `atril` or  `okular` can open PDFs. All produce the error:
> >
> >     libtiff.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file 
> >     or      
> > directory
>
> libtiff4 is not available in jessie.

Indeed, which is why i find it odd that such significant packages 
as `evince` (version 3.14.1-2) and `okular` (version 4:4.14.2-2) 
are apparently requiring it.

> you can check it with
>
>    rmadison libtiff4

   $ rmadison libtiff4        debian: curl: (7) Failed to connect 
   to qa.debian.org port 443: Network is unreachable new: curl: 
   (7) Failed to connect to qa.debian.org port 443: Network is 
   unreachable

HTTPS is certainly working for other domains, so i assume there's 
some problem surrounding the qa.debian.org server?

> may be run apt-get dist-upgrade ?

   $ apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building 
   dependency tree        Reading state information... Done 
   Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 
   to remove and 0 not upgraded.

> currently atril has version 1.8.1+dfsg1-4 in jessie

i just confirmed that is indeed the version of `atril` that's 
installed.


Alexis.