Krishnan.V: please execute this command and paste the results:

ls -ld /usr/lib/libssl.so /usr/lib/libssl.so.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-10-30 14:14 /usr/lib/libssl.so -> libssl.so.0.9.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-10-30 15:34 /usr/lib/libssl.so.4

What should i do now?

Matthew help

Hmm, it looks like your /usr/lib/libssl.so.4 file is an empty file. Something bad has happened to it, and it will need to be re-installed. What distro are you using?

Iam using Ubuntu 7.04

OK, so we want to identify the package which this file belongs to and then re-install it.

To show the package which contains a file you so this:
Please do it do it for all the libssl files, and also list them so I can see what is going on more completely:
Please paste the output of these commands. By the way, I am assuming you are not the same personal the original poster, is that correct?

Yes. Iam not the original poster. i.e. Amitabhishek. I will post the results soon.

Results for dpkg -S /usr/lib/libssl*
libnss3: /usr/lib/libssl3.so
libssl-dev: /usr/lib/libssl.a
libssl-dev: /usr/lib/libssl.so
libssl0.9.7: /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7
libssl0.9.8: /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8
dpkg: /usr/lib/libssl.so.4 not found.

i can't post the results for dpkg -S file. Iam getting an error saying....
The text that you have entered is too long (26410 characters). Please shorten it to 25000 characters long.
What do i do?

vers/Makefile
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