I'm using 64 bit Ubuntu and installed  freesurfer-Linux-rh9-stable-pub-v4.0.5-full.tar.gz

Everything worked fine when I tested the installation with tkmedit and tksurfer.
I then ran recon-all and got error message  while loading shared libraries:libtiff.so.3.
I have tried
ln /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3
 
But still got same error message.