# 使用 Homebrew, dnf, Nix, pacman, zypper 安装 libtiff
查看 libtiff 的安装路径、可执行文件、元数据以及面向 AI 代理工作流的安全说明。
## 安装
```sh
sudo av install brew:libtiff
```
其他安装命令:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install libtiff
```
证据: local Homebrew formula metadata
### Linux
- dnf (92%):
```sh
sudo dnf install libtiff
```
证据: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libtiff from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst
- Nix (92%):
```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#libtiff
```
证据: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libtiff/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman (92%):
```sh
sudo pacman -S libtiff
```
证据: Arch Linux sync databases: libtiff from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
- zypper (92%):
```sh
sudo zypper install libtiff6
```
证据: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libtiff6 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
## 软件包事实
- **软件包键:** brew:libtiff
- **软件包管理器:** Homebrew
- **版本:** 4.7.2
- **来源摘要:** TIFF library and utilities
- **主页:**
- **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## 可执行文件
- fax2ps (别名)
- fax2tiff (别名)
- pal2rgb (别名)
- ppm2tiff (别名)
- raw2tiff (别名)
- tiff2bw (别名)
- tiff2pdf (别名)
- tiff2ps (别名)
- tiff2rgba (别名)
- tiffcmp (别名)
- tiffcp (别名)
- tiffcrop (别名)
- tiffdither (别名)
- tiffdump (别名)
- tiffinfo (别名)
- tiffmedian (别名)
- tiffset (别名)
- tiffsplit (别名)
## 安装行为
- Bottle: 不可用
## 版本和新鲜度
- 页面生成时间: 2026-08-03
- 管理器版本: 4.7.2
## 项目历史与用法
LibTIFF is the long-running C library and utility suite for reading, writing, inspecting, and transforming TIFF images. It is one of the durable image-format dependencies that quietly sits under scanning, publishing, GIS, scientific-imaging, and document workflows.
### 项目历史
The LibTIFF license and README preserve the original authorship line: copyright 1988-1997 Sam Leffler and 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics. The project documentation describes a library for reading and writing TIFF images plus a collection of tools for manipulating TIFF files.
The project moved through several hosting eras. The README points users to libtiff.gitlab.io and simplesystems.org documentation, OSGeo downloads, and the GitLab source repository, while noting that older Bugzilla issues were migrated to GitLab.
A major evolution point was LibTIFF 4.0.0, whose release notes document BigTIFF support and 64-bit offset work. BigTIFF addressed classic TIFF's 32-bit-offset limit by defining a 64-bit larger-than-4GB TIFF variant.
### 采用历史
LibTIFF became standard infrastructure because TIFF itself remained common in archival, print, fax, geospatial, and scientific image data. The input metadata shows packaging in Homebrew, Fedora, Nix, Arch, and openSUSE, and the upstream docs emphasize portability across Unix-like systems and Windows.
The tool set also helped adoption: utilities such as tiffinfo, tiffdump, tiffcp, tiffset, and tiffsplit make the package useful even when no application links the library directly. Upstream's 4.6.0 and 4.7.0 notes about archiving and restoring tools show how much packagers notice the command-line surface.
### 使用方式
Developers link libtiff to read and write TIFF image data, inspect directories and tags, and handle compression and multi-image files. Users and packagers also rely on the bundled tools for metadata inspection, conversion, splitting, copying, and repair-style workflows.
Because TIFF is a container-like image format with many tags, compression modes, and historical edge cases, LibTIFF often serves as the shared compatibility layer instead of each application implementing the format independently.
### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心
LibTIFF is the sort of dependency package managers keep sharp because so many unrelated tools inherit its parser and utilities. Security fixes, format-corner-case behavior, and command availability can affect image viewers, document converters, GIS tools, scanner stacks, and scientific pipelines.
Its history also tracks format evolution: classic TIFF, BigTIFF, long-lived command-line utilities, and a project migration from older web infrastructure to GitLab-backed documentation and issue tracking.
### 时间线
- 1988: Sam Leffler copyright begins for LibTIFF.
- 1991: Silicon Graphics copyright begins, marking the SGI era of the project.
- 2011: LibTIFF 4.0.0 release notes document BigTIFF support and 64-bit offset changes.
- 2023: LibTIFF 4.6.0 moves many older tools to archived or unsupported source categories and stops building them by default.
- 2024: LibTIFF 4.7.0 restores the removed tools to the default build.
- 2025: The documentation copyright line reaches 1988-2025 for LibTIFF contributors.
### Related projects
- TIFF 6.0 and BigTIFF are the core file-format specifications around LibTIFF. ImageMagick, GDAL, scanning software, document converters, and many image viewers commonly sit nearby in distribution dependency graphs.
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## 安全说明
library-like package without higher-risk signals.
- **Geiger 风险:** 绿色 / 低
- library-like package without higher-risk signals
## 其他软件包管理器记录
- Nix - libtiff: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libtiff/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- dnf - libtiff - 4.7.2-2.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libtiff from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Library of functions for manipulating TIFF format image files | http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/
- dnf - libtiff-devel - 4.7.2-2.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libtiff-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Development tools for programs which will use the libtiff library | http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/
- dnf - libtiff-static - 4.7.2-2.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libtiff-static from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Static TIFF image format file library | http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/
- dnf - libtiff-tools - 4.7.2-2.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libtiff-tools from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Command-line utility programs for manipulating TIFF files | http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/
- pacman - libtiff - 4.7.2-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: libtiff from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Library for manipulation of TIFF images | http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/
- zypper - libtiff6 - 4.7.2-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libtiff6 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | The Tiff Library (with JPEG and compression support) | https://libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/
## Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/libtiff.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/libtiff.yml)
## 来源
- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph