I have the latest version of the libs for RH 7.2 (at least I believe so) and when I try to installed XChat I get the error message that says that I need

libcrypto.so.0 is needed by xchat-1.8.7-0
libssl.so.0 is needed by xchat-1.8.7-0

can anyone help?? Thanks



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Try running ldconfig that will search and add all new libraries it finds. Maybe (but unlikely since ldconfig SHOULD run on every system startup) is the problem.
Try it, maybe it will work.
OR those libraries are in some unusual place the system does not look. Find where the are, copy them to /lib and run ldconfig.
Is this error generated by RPM? If so i heard that RPM sometimes does these things for no apparent reason. Make sure that those libraries have the EXACT same name as RPM requests. If they dont then make sym. links with the exact names that will point to those libraries.
hope that helps

How do I make these links? while I don't have libcrypto.so.0 I do have libcrypto.so.0.9.6b and this seems to be the one that all of the other libcrypts point to.

i just went thru this same thing today ...

for finding out where your prg is looking for the file -
strace link:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux-...76.html#AEN437

and then to create the sym links in the right spot:
http://www.desktop-linux.net/symlinks.htm

good luck!

Thanks ataraktos!

I somehow got it all installed at about 4 this morning with some shot in the dark tactics, but I am glad to have this knowledge for future reference.

heeey,

i'm not the only one taking shots in the dark in the wee-hours-of-the-morning! the few times things go right, seems it's never before midnight!!

take care.