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A whole pile of my applications are no longer launching (xchat, vmware, etc) with this error.

xchat: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I did some searching and tried a few of the posts found (on this site and others) but I can't seem to get past this. I checked in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux_gnu -- assuming that is where it wants to find the file -- and sure enough there is no entry. I'm just not sure how to put it there.

Can someone help?

A.B.
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jardineworks
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Reinstall the package libssl1.0.0

sudo apt-get install libssl1.0.0:amd64

The 64 bit shared library should be at

/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0

with a link to it at

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so

The static library is at

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.a

If it's just the links missing, you can replace them yourself without doing a package reinstall.

Looks like the file was deleted (or moved --see if locate libssl.so.1 finds it). Of course, the package manager would know nothing about that, so try the -f force on the install, and if that fails, try the apt-get --reinstall switch.

ubfan1
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