<p>I cannot use neither yum nor rpm after I compiled and installed openssl-0.9.8. I did the following before make install:</p>
<p>rpm -e --nodeps openssl<br>rpm -e --nodeps openssl-devel<br>make install</p>
<p>when I use rpm I get the following error message:</p>
<p>rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.5 : cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</p>
<p>I get a similar message when I use yum. Both utilities seem to need the library libssl.so.5.</p>
<div>Is there any way to resolve this problem? I tried reboot with my installation CD but it does not give me the option to choose<br>packages. I thought of reinstalling openssl from the CD. I remember with redhat 9 there was an option firstboot, which I
<br>once used to add packages.</div>
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<div><font color="#000099">An end user from ittoolbox forum suggested that I use rpm2cpio. My question is how is it that so many utilities depend on this libssl.so.5 file to function? How many utilities and applications depend on this library as a vital component to function? I can't get wget to work as well; I get the same error message. Is there a way to recover from such problem?
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<p>I tried rpm2cpio but unfortunately I get the same error message as with rpm and Yum. I tried something else this weekend. I<br> linked file libssl.a (the library file installed with openssl-0.9.8) to libssl.so.5 but that did not solve the problem as well. The error message has slightly changed;
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<p>rpm2cpio :error while loading the shared libraries : /lib/libssl.so.5: invalid ELF header.</p>
<p>I am running an update Fedora Core 4 ver 2.6.17-1.2141_FC4</p>
<div>I am thinking of downloading the source files for openssl-0.9.7f (which was the version supplied with Fedora Core 4)compile and reinstall again. However I doubt whether the libssl.so.5 file will be installed after the make install command.
<br>Is there a way of uninstall an application without using rpm?<br> </div>
<div>Thanks guys for taking your precious time to help me.<br> </div><br clear="all"><br>