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I am trying to install GDAL on a linux machine and tested some sample commands like gdalinfo --version This worked fine, but when I started working with images like .tif I got the following error .

Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectoryCheckOrder:Invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order
ERROR 1: MissingRequired:TIFF directory is missing required "ImageLength" field
gdalinfo failed - unable to open '1.tif'.

I reinstalled libtiff but I am still getting the same error.

Iam working on CentOS release 5.7 (Final) .Is there any one who worked on this. Any help is appreciated.

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What version of GDAL are you using and what exact command and file gave you that error? – R.K. Feb 15 '12 at 1:37

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Are you installing from source? You might try --with-libtiff=internal and --with-geotiff=internal to have GDAL use its own sources for these libraries rather than depend on system libraries which are likely to be old.

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I tried the one you have suggested wget download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.9.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf gdal-1.9.0.tar.gz – user5945 Feb 15 '12 at 16:40
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Just for diagnosis, on my ubuntu linux box I'd do this:

Run 

ldd `which gdalinfo`

you'll see that the gdalinfo itself does not dynamically load libtiff4:

ldd `which gdalinfo` | grep -i tif  #shows nothing

What happens if you ran this:

gdalinfo --debug on 1.tif

My output

GDAL: GDALOpen(1.tif, this=0x8d6c70) succeeds as GTiff.
Driver: GTiff/GeoTIFF
...

Often it helps to install libtiff4-dev package as well.

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