You don't need to do any of that. Just install the libssl1.0.0* package for your distro.
For me since I'm running Linux Mint (an Ubuntu/Debian variant), I went here and downloaded libssl1.0.0_1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.13_amd64.deb package.
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl1.0/