Hi Joe,
Sorry to hear you're having trouble. This is the first we've heard of someone trying to install yt on Springdale Linux so unfortunately I don't have a panacea.
The error you're seeing is due to not having the SSL libraries installed. To fix it, you'll need to install the 'openssl' and 'openssl-devel' packages. If you don't have root access to the machine you're installing on, you'll need to discuss this with the sysadmin.
There may be other packages you'll need as well. For example, on ubuntu we suggest installing libssl-dev, build-essential, libncurses5, libncurses5-dev, zip, uuid-dev, libfreetype6-dev, and tk-dev. I'm not sure what overlap in necessary packages there is between red hat based linux distros like Springdale and debian-based distros like ubuntu.
Cheers,
Nathan