copy library file to /lib

sunhui · 05-21-2007, 01:46 AM

When I run some application program , it pop the below error message " libraries : libcrypto.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file for directory" , then I have copy this file from another host ( different OS version ) to /lib , now the application is OK to run , but I am afraid that it is harmful to the system ( especially after reboot the server ) , can advise is there any impact to the system to do that ? thx

berbae · 05-21-2007, 04:43 AM

I don't think it's the best way to solve that kind of problem.
You should rather install the package for your Linux distro which contains that library, or compile/install yourself the entire source package which contains it.
On my machine I have a libcrypto.so.0.9.8 library which is installed with the openssl package.
So you should search in what package your distro have that library and install it with a package manager which can also take care of possible dependency problems.
Bye.