installing missing libraries

Useful post for Ubuntu installations:

http://iambusychangingtheworld.blogspot.com/2013/08/ubuntu-solve-cannot-find-l-errors.html

I quote:

Ubuntu - Solve "cannot find -lxxx" errors

In Linux (Ubuntu), whenever you install a package and you see the following error:

...
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxxx
...


It means that your system is missing the "xxx" lib. In my case, the error occurs when I install MySQL-python package:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl  

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto


So, the solution here is install those missing libraries. For my computer, I'just need to install the OpenSSL development lib, the libssl-dev:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev


And everything will be OK.