I am trying to use the stable release of Slicer4 on SPL systems. I
added symlinks to the libssl/libcrypto, as described here:
http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Documentation/4.0/ReleaseNotes#Fedora_13_.28SPL_systems.29

When I try to start Slicer, I have the assertion failure and it does not start:

/d/scratchbuild/fedorov/Slicer-4.0.0-linux-amd64/Slicer
/d/scratchbuild/fedorov/Slicer-4.0.0-linux-amd64/./bin/SlicerQT-real:
/home/fedorov/local/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no version information
available (required by
/d/scratchbuild/fedorov/Slicer-4.0.0-linux-amd64/./lib/Slicer-4.0/libarchive.so.8)
Can't find SlicerVersion.txt at address:
"/home/fedorov/projhome/software/slicer2/SlicerVersion.txt"
RegisterIO "qSlicerFiducialsIO"
Number of registered modules: 2
ASSERT: "QFileInfo(scriptedDisplayableManagerDirectory).isDir()" in
file /home/kitware/Dashboards/Experimental/Slicer4/Base/QTGUI/qSlicerLayoutManager.cxx,
line 136
error: [/d/scratchbuild/fedorov/Slicer-4.0.0-linux-amd64/./bin/SlicerQT-real]
exit abnormally - Report the problem.

At this point, I reproduced this problem on a separate workstation with a different Linux distro (Ubuntu 10.04). Btw, this system did not have issues with libssl/libcrypto, no symlinks were needed.

Here's the error message I am getting. Looks like a packaging issue?

[andrey@beat Downloads] ./Slicer-4.0.0-linux-amd64/Slicer
ITK_AUTOLOAD_PATH doesn't exists: ""
Can't find SlicerVersion.txt at address: "/home/andrey/Slicer/NoQt/Slicer3-build/SlicerVersion.txt"
RegisterIO "qSlicerFiducialsIO"
Number of registered modules: 2
ASSERT: "QFileInfo(scriptedDisplayableManagerDirectory).isDir()" in file /home/kitware/Dashboards/Experimental/Slicer4/Base/QTGUI/qSlicerLayoutManager.cxx, line 136
error: [/home/andrey/Downloads/Slicer-4.0.0-linux-amd64/./bin/SlicerQT-real] exit abnormally - Report the problem.