404 for libtiff5 package needed for examples that use PIL

[thnewlands]

I was getting this missing package error when I tried to run the examples after installing the latest version of Pillow on my Rasberry Pi.

  File "logo.py", line 4, in <module>
    from PIL import Image
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 100, in <module>
    from . import _imaging as core
ImportError: libtiff.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I read elsewhere that running sudo apt install libtiff5 would install the missing package. So I tried to run it and I found this 404 error instead:

sudo apt install libtiff5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libtiff5
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 116 not upgraded.
Need to get 250 kB of archives.
After this operation, 594 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Err:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster/main armhf libtiff5 armhf 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u2
  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/t/tiff/libtiff5_4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u2_armhf.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Does anyone know of a mirror that works for libtiff5? Am I installing Pillow incorrectly?

It might be useful to include a section that explains how to get the proper components of Pillow necessary to run the library in the readme.

[Gadgetoid]

That should be the right approach, though you might need to sudo apt update first to ensure your sources are up to date.

But, broadly, yes this looks like it needs some documenting!

It might be easier to uninstall the pypi version of pil (python3 -m pip uninstall pil iirc) and use apt's version: sudo apt install python3-pil which should pull in the necessary dependencies automagically.

Normally our install.sh scripts do this for you, but it looks like Inky is lagging behind our newer packages :grimacing:

[thnewlands]

Thank you for following up so quickly!

sudo apt install python3-pil
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libimagequant0 liblcms2-2 libtiff5 libwebpdemux2 libwebpmux3 python3-olefile
Suggested packages:
  liblcms2-utils python-pil-doc python3-pil-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libimagequant0 liblcms2-2 libtiff5 libwebpdemux2 libwebpmux3 python3-olefile python3-pil
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 116 not upgraded.
Need to get 614 kB/974 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,712 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Err:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster/main armhf libtiff5 armhf 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u2
  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]
Err:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster/main armhf python3-pil armhf 5.4.1-2+deb10u2
  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/t/tiff/libtiff5_4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u2_armhf.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/p/pillow/python3-pil_5.4.1-2+deb10u2_armhf.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Strangely I'm getting a similar set of missing IPs here. I don't think it's entirely on my end because I've been able to download plenty of other packages and have run sudo apt update several times

[Gadgetoid]

I'm not sure what's going on here, but I think your package management is subtly broken.

Those broken URLs are broken for me too, but the package manager shouldn't even be trying to download stuff that doesn't exist.

A reinstall might be necessary since you'll likely continue to have trouble installing other things (this issue has nothing directly to do with our libraries), or perhaps try:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt --fix-missing update

[thnewlands]

That fixed my problem!! Thank you.