Ubuntu 11.10 error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Sat 29 October 2011 | Last updated on Tue 06 December 2022

A quick solution is to install the libssl 0.9.8 package with the Following command:
sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8

Thanks to Rob who commented below and provided an answer on Stackoverflow

I just upgraded from ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 with a fresh install, by keeping my old home folder so not loosing my personal data, but only formatting the whole system partition. After reinstalling my most important development software I still couldn't run django's server. I kept getting the followering error:
error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

You will also get this error:
python: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It seems this problem was because the virtualenv was still using the previous python libraries, which linked to a no longer there ssl package, what I did was create a new virtualenv and problem was solved. Anybody know a better way? Is there a way to update virtualenv to a new python version?

Update: Seems it's just the upgrade process is too buggy normally. I really enjoy Archlinux and recommend it to anybody who hates these kind of issues.