Tor does not work

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[cortman]

I'm trying to get Tor to run on my DSL 4.4 installation. I loaded the tor.dsl with mydsl-load, tried running "tor", and realized that the binary wasn't in my $PATH.
So I navigated to /opt/tor, and ran the binary there. It began to start and then failed, returning the following error-

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

No problem, I thought, and downloaded and loaded openssl-0.9.7j-includes.dsl and ssl-link-fix.dsl. After these I still got the same error.
How can I get this working?

[CNK]

I'm a bit late with this reply I know, but I only just learnt the details of how Tor works so I figure I'm now less likely to say something meaningless.

It looks like the Tor binary was compiled on a machine with libssl version 0.9.8 installed. That package has version 0.9.7 and DSL comes as standard with version 0.9.6 (according to the packages list on the website). So the package author should have included their libssl with their Tor package, however as they didn't, your only option is to compile something yourself.

Check if a version of Tor you're happy with will work with libssl 0.9.6 (already in DSL) or 0.9.7. If so, download the Tor source and compile it yourself (info on how to do this is online, look in the old forum archives). If not, download the source for a version of Tor and compatible version of Openssl, then compile them (Openssl first, Tor afterwards). If you get the latest version of Tor, it will probably need more dependancies than Openssl (made clear as errors when you run the configure script), these again (unless already in the My-DSL respository) will need to be downloaded and compiled before you compile Tor.

Good luck! If it's your first time compiling, just think what you'll learn!