django runserver error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Question

So yesterday I did a fresh install of Ubuntu11.10 but keeping my home directory with my virtualenvs, I installed virtual env and was able to logon my previous virtual env, but now when I try to run python manage.py runserver under the virtualenv I get the following error:

error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any idea how to fix this? I tried installing ssl package of python, but that didn't fix it.

Answer 1

I had the same error installing OpenStack on Ubuntu 11.10.

Running locate showed I only had version 1.0.0 and not 0.9.8

$ locate libssl.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0

I fixed it using:
$sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8

Answer 2

I fixed it by creating a new virtualenv and installing all packages again. It seems my old virtualenv was still linking to the ubuntu 11.04 general ssl package, but the location was updated.