Error While Loading Shared Libraries `libcrypt.so.1`

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Error While Loading Shared Libraries: libcrypt.so.1

Issue

While running the dsshubserverconfig, the following error appears:

Error while loading shared libraries: libcrypt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Environment

  • DSS 6
  • AWS Linux AMI

Resolution

This error appears when the libcrypt.so.1 library is missing from the Amazon Linux AMI. To resolve this issue, install the missing library by running the following command:

sudo yum install libxcrypt-compat