SL wants libssl.so.0.9.7, but I have 0.9.8

Title says it all, just about: I just installed Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex on a 32-bit computer, updated what presumably needed it, got the proprietary nVidia driver going, and sat back to run SL, only to get this error message:

bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
*** Unclean shutdown. ***

I do have libssl, but... I have libssl.0.9.8. How can I get the SL client to work?

Make sure you have libssl.0.9.7.so in the lib folder within your SecondLife folder, and that you have the proper permissions set on it.

This does bring up a valid point, however. SL's Linux viewer is not future-proof. Updates of core libraries should never break a program.

Now I'm confused. Looking in the directory I extracted the archive into, I see no "lib" directory. I'll download it again to see whether I got the whole thing or not.

UPDATE: The RC client is happy with the newer libssl version, so I'll use it.