libgeotiff-dev software package provides the GeoTIFF library -- development files, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install libgeotiff-dev
libgeotiff-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libgeotiff-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libgeotiff-dev *
You will get with libgeotiff-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libgeotiff-dev |
| Version | 1.4.0-1ubuntu2 |
| Description | the GeoTIFF library -- development files |
| Sub Section | libdevel |