Fix missing Asterisk library error (libasteriskssl.so.1 & libasteriskpj.so.2 not found)

Here we will discuss how to solve a problem with the libasteriskssl and libasteriskpj libraries that may appear during installation on Debian or other systems.

1) Symptoms of the problem

        After compiling Asterisk using the ./configure command with the --libdir=/usr/lib64 parameter, we will encounter problems with starting the Asterisk system at the end of the installation. The system will not be able to find the necessary libraries. This may result in a message similar to the following: error while loading shared libraries: libasteriskssl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

ldd /usr/sbin/asterisk

You can see that the operating system cannot find two libraries; libasteriskssl and libasteriskpj. Errors appear: libasteriskssl.so.1 => not found libasteriskpj.so.2 => not found

2) Solution to the problem

        As you can see, the system is trying to find the libraries in the /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu directory. We need to look for where they are actually located.

find / -name 'libasteriskssl.so.1'

As we could guess, the compiler copied them from the source to the place we indicated, i.e. /usr/lib64 We now need to put them in the right place, i.e. in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu We will use the ln command to create appropriate symbolic links to these necessary libraries.

ln -s /usr/lib64/libasteriskssl.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
ln -s /usr/lib64/libasteriskpj.so.2 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Now we can run Asterisk without any problems and check its status.

systemctl start asterisk
systemctl status asterisk

After switching to the asterisk console, we can monitor the operation of the system.

/usr/sbin/asterisk -rvvv

Problem solved!