Red Hat is known for customizing its packages. OpenSSL is one of the ones that seems to be "central" to the rest of the system. It is better to use the OpenSSL packages as released by Red Hat. You can get the latest openssl rpm packages for 7.3 at this URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-291.html. This includes the security fixes through September 2003 (and, I think, some the features in 0.9.7) despite the naming of the RPM.
You will note that there are several packages there. Download all that pertain to your platform. (If you are running on a PC, that will be the i386 platform.) Include the one that starts openssl0.9.5. It is an integral part of this group of rpms. Once you have the rpms on your system, do rpm -Fvh ... and you should be good to go. To get later versions of openssl, and stay within Red Hat, you will need to upgrade to a currently supported version of Red Hat Linux. I switched to Red Hat's Fedora Core 1 for my home network and have been happy with it. Janet Shea -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems installing OpenSSL on Linux I've inherited and system and an application that I can't quite get to work. I've got Redhat Linux 7.3 on Intel w/ OpenSSL 0.9.7 half-installed (so it seems). When I type "openssl", I get: openssl: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And, indeed, the so seems to be missing but I've looked for an RPM and can't find one that works. I found one on my system and one on the web but rpm -force -i therpm completes very quickly and appears to accomplish nothing. If I add --percent, get "100%" twice and still nothing seems to have happened. Is there an authoritative source for a Linux RPM for OpenSSL? A pointer would be appreciated. Thanks. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
