Hi. Did you do a search with find to see if the file exists anywhere on your system. Not meaning to be insulting if you already knew this, but as root go to your / directory, so everything will be searched. Then do: find -name libssl.so.0.9.7 If you installed from source, it may not be where your program is looking for it. I did a 'find" and I actually have several of these on my system: ./usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.7 ./usr/lib/i486/libssl.so.0.9.7 ./usr/lib/i586/libssl.so.0.9.7 ./usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 Mine are in /usr/lib; if you did the installation from source, I would think yours might be in /usr/local/lib. However, my openssl is still 0.9.7C so maybe something different is going on with yours. Hth. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."