asterisk users - Mar 2005 - Problem starting Asterisk - libssl.so.4 cannot be found

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

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.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>