socket question(2)

[Skip Montanaro]

    Rick> eventhough i have installed openssl in my solaris 2.8
    Rick> box, i still get these errors. ..???
    ...
    Rick> ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: libssl.so.0.9.6:
    Rick> open failed: No such file or directory

Did your openssl install create a file named libssl.so.0.9.6?  If not,
that's the reason.  If so, make sure it's in a location which ld.so will
look.  If it's not, try setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running the Python
interpreter.

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