[mardit]

I'm new in Linux and Installed OpenFOAM-1.4 - getting the following error message while trying to run FoamX:

...openssl-0.9.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I know that the library libssl.so.0.9.7 is missing but can you help me to install it, in which folder?

appreciate any help!!!

M

[fra76]

It depends on the linux distribution.
On a redhat based distribution (like Fedora, or CentOS) just type, as root "yum install openssl" and it resolves all the dependencies for you.
With debian, use apt-get, but I'm not a "debianist", so I can't help you with this.
On SuSe, use "yast" (yast2 is the gui for yast, very easy to use).
etc...

[tufty]

it surprises me, frankly, that any "modern" linux install would come without openssl at all. It seems more likely to me that it has openssl 0.9.8<something>, which would install libssl.0.9.8.so, and symlinks to libssl.so, etc

any installed ssl library is most likely to be found in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib.

If this is the case, you have 2 options. The first is to download, build, and install openssl 0.9.7, making sure that the existing symlinks to 0.9.8 don't get broken. The second is to rebuild FoamX from source.

Simon

[fra76]

Right, in such a case you can even resolve with a link to the newer version of the library, with the name of the old one. (ln -s /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7)
I resolved with this trick a couple of times, but pay attention to the existing files!

[mardit]

Thanks guys,

It's working now