[Asterisk-Users] Problem starting Asterisk - libssl.so.4 cannot be found

[Andy and Jayne Slim]

I'm sure this is a pretty basic problem, unfortunately I am a telecomms rather 
than a Linux person so any suggestions would be most appreciated.  I have 
successfully downloaded and installed the various Asterisk packages.  
However, when I try to start Asterisk, I immediately get a message saying 
module 'libssl.so.4' cannot be found and the startup is halted.  I don't have 
this file anywhere on my system but I read on some articles that this was a 
symbolic link to libssl.so.0.9 so I did an 'ln -s' to point the offending 
module there.  This made no difference.  I therefore upgraded my Open SSL 
version to 0.9.7d and then re-installed Asterisk.  Still no joy.  I have 
moved the module and its symbolic link to the same folder as the Asterisk 
executable, and checked the path statements in ld.conf, but the program still 
will not start.  Please can someone advise me on what else I should try to 
resolve this?

Many thanks for your help

Andy