[CentOS] recovery from loss of libssl.so.4?

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

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On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:57:03PM -0600, Larry Vaden wrote:
> libssl.so.4 was erased by accident and now, e.g., iinvoking wget results in:
> 
> wget: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.4: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> [root at mail src]#
> 
> How does one go about restoring libssl.so.4?

libssl.so.4 is usually just a symlink. So if that was all you lost, it
should be quite easy to recover:

cd /lib
ln -s libssl.so.0.9.7a libssl.so.4

First check if you have libssl.so.0.9.7a inside /lib. libssl.so.4 should
be a link from 0.9.7, and not 0.9.6.

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Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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