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Installing OpenSSL on Ubuntu 16.04/18.04

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OpenSSL (https://www.openssl.org) is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for

the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. It is also a general-
purpose cryptography library.

OpenSSL is used by many programs like Apache Web server

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others providing support for various cryptographic algorithms such as ciphers (AES, Blow sh,
DES, IDEA etc.), and cryptographic hash functions (MD5, MD4, SHA-1, SHA-2 etc.)

In this guide, we are going to install the latest version of OpenSSL on Ubuntu 16.04/18.04.

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Updating System Packages

It is always recommended that you update the system to the latest packages before beginning any
major installations. This is done with the command below:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Before we begin our installation, you can check the version of OpenSSL installed on your server
by issuing the command below:

openssl version -a

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Step 1: Install the necessary packages for compiling

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Issue the command below to install the necessary packages for compilation:

sudo apt install build-essential checkinstall zlib1g-dev -y

Step 2: Download OpenSSL

Next, we are going to download OpenSSL from the source (getting the latest version which at the
time of writing this guide, the latest stable version is the 1.1.1 series).

cd /usr/local/src/
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-1.1.1c.tar.gz

Next, extract the downloaded le using the command below:

sudo tar -xf openssl-1.1.1c.tar.gz

Next, navigate to the extracted directory.

cd openssl-1.1.1c

Step 3: Install OpenSSL

We are now going to install the latest version of OpenSSL which we downloaded using the
command below:

sudo ./config --prefix=/usr/local/ssl --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl shared zl

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sudo make
sudo make test
sudo make install

Step 4: Con gure OpenSSL Shared Libraries

Naviagate to the /etc/ld.so.conf.d directory and create a new con guration le 'openssl-
1.1.1c.conf'.

cd /etc/ld.so.conf.d/
sudo nano openssl-1.1.1c.conf

Enter the following:

/usr/local/ssl/lib

Ensure to save before you exit.

Next, reload the dynamic link by issuing the command below:

sudo ldconfig -v

Step 5: Con gure OpenSSL Binary

In our nal con guration, we are going to insert the binary of our new version of OpenSSL
installed (located at /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl ) to replace the default openssl binary (located
at /usr/bin/openssl or /bin/openssl ).

First, carry out a backup of the binary les.

sudo mv /usr/bin/c_rehash /usr/bin/c_rehash.backup

sudo mv /usr/bin/openssl /usr/bin/openssl.backup

Next, edit the /etc/environment le using vim.

sudo nano /etc/environment

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Insert the following:

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PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/gam
es:/usr/local/games:/usr/local/ssl/bin"
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Ensure to save before you exit.

Next, reload the OpenSSL environment and check the PATH bin directory using commands
below:

source /etc/environment
echo $PATH

We can now check and verify our installation of the latest stable version of OpenSSL using the
command below:

which openssl
openssl version -a

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Robert • 3 months ago • edited

/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl
root@localhost:/# openssl version -a
openssl: relocation error: openssl: symbol EVP_mdc2 version OPENSSL_1_1_0 not defined in file
libcrypto.so.1.1 with link time reference
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Claudius Nascimento > Robert • 2 months ago

Same here
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GraveDigger > Claudius Nascimento • 2 months ago

same here, any help is appreciated
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Benjamin Schiller • 5 months ago

Well done! Thank you guys
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PP • 6 months ago
Hi there - Can you please advise what following commands are doing here?

sudo make
sudo make test
sudo make install
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