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 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
