From: Greg Hauptmann Date: 2009-09-14T19:50:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Can't do "gem update --system" - libcrypto.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so (LoadError) 2009/9/9 Eric Hodel : > You probably need to recompile ruby against the newer libraries.  I bet the > old ones were all deleted.  Sounds like a terrible upgrade process. > thanks Eric - I'll try this...