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

[Andy and Jayne Slim]

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 16:52, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 15:04 +0000, Andy and Jayne Slim wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Where did you get your version of asterisk? It sounds like you are
> having dependency problems. It sounds like you downloaded a binary copy
> of asterisk and the vendor of that package didn't put in proper
> dependency information to stop you from installing it till all the
> required packages are installed.
>
> You really should download the source, compile, and install. This will
> mean that asterisk will be linked to your libraries.
Stephen
Thx for the advice.  Yes, I downloaded a binary RPM because I've not had any 
experience installing from source.  However, I'm beginning to realise this is 
the only way to resolve the problem.  It will be a learning exercise if 
nothing else!
Andy