no decode delegate for this image format, tiff

[yeller]

Hello,

When I try "identify file.tif"

I get: "identify: no decode delegate for this image format file.tif'"

How can I fix this?

I have a machine that is running IM 6.2.5, libtiff 3.6.1, and libtiff-devel 3.6.1. Unfortunately, I cannot update to a later version of IM at this time.

BTW: when I run "identify -list format" neither "TIFF" nor "TIF" is present.

Also, IM was installed using YUM

Ok, it appears that IM has been installed from source as well as from YUM. This was problematic because the source version was giving me trouble. Is there an easy way I can un-install this source installation when I no longer have the source? The reason I want to uninstall is because I tried to do a work-around by renaming the identify executable so the command line would look in "usr/bin" for the exe. The problem then became that when I put in "identify" I get : "/usr/local/bin/identify: No such file or directory", even though there is another version of identify in "/usr/bin"

Thank You

[fmw42]

apparently libtiff is not properly installed or you have multiple copies. To see what delegates are IM thinks are installed type:

convert -list configure

and look at the line that starts with DELEGATES

[yeller]

Apparently, I was editing my first post while you were posting your suggestions. Please see the end of the first post for the update as things have changed.

[fmw42]

i am not a unix guru. so best i can suggest is read http://www.imagemagick.org/script/advan ... lation.php

usually to uninstall you can cd to the directory and do a make clean or make distclean or make uninstall. see the end of the reference

[yeller]

Thanks for your reply, unfortunately, those instructions don't help me because I don't have the original source code - I'm not sure if it would work correctly if I had a newer version of the source.

BTW, it looks like I'm just going to have to upgrade my version of IM.

[anthony]

What type of machine. If you are redhat/fedora linux, you can build your own version using the instructions on http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/api/#build

No one has provided instructions for generating Debian, or MacOSX Packages.