How to install OpenSSL 1.1.1 and libSSL package?

Question

I want to use OpenSSL1.1.1 version for my code development. Currently I am working with Openssl 1.1.0g on Ubuntu 18.04 machine.

If I download the package with the command sudo apt install libssl-dev, then I get OpenSSL 1.1.0g version,

If I download the package with the command sudo apt install libssl1.0-dev, then I get OpenSSL 1.0.2n version,

How do I download the OpenSSL 1.1.0 and libssl package?

Note: I don't want to download OpenSSL package separately and build it externally. I am supposed to download using an Ubuntu package.

Solution

In fact your question was duplicate and the same question already appeared in Upgrade openssl 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 in Ubuntu 18.04.

As already answered by @Kevin Bowen, openssl 1.1.1 is not in the current Ubuntu repositories, you will need to download, compile, and install the latest OpenSSL version manually.

The same thing I too suggested in the beginning in comments section. My favorite is always to install in /opt, so I suggested that too in comments section.

If you don't want to do, then you will be stuck for ever!

What is OpenSSL?

OpenSSL is a command line cryptography toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) network protocols and related cryptography standards required by them.

Most network communication apps and tools that use TLS / SSL protocols may have some OpenSSL tools installed in them. If you’re going to be using applications and packages that depend on the latest versions of OpenSSL, you may have to manually install it on Ubuntu systems.

OpenSSL relies on two important libraries that are part of the OpenSSL project:

• libssl provides the client and server-side implementations for SSLv3 and TLS.
• libcrypto provides general cryptographic and X.509 support needed by SSL/TLS but not logically part of it

The default toolket of OpenSSL that comes with Ubuntu isn’t the latest. To get the latest, you must download it yourself and install.

Guide to install the latest version of openssl 1.1.1b on Ubuntu 18.04.

Step 1 : Download openssl 1.1.1b

Download the latest openssl 1.1.1b release from from Ubuntu source package….

OpenSSL Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit

Figure-1: Download openssl 1.1.1b

You can also easily install openssl 1.1.1b package by running the commands below…

wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.1b.tar.gz

Step 2 : Install Openssl from the tar.gb package

Now create /opt/openssl directory:

$ sudo mkdir /opt/openssl Figure-2: Create folder for openssl under /opt directory.

Now that you’ve downloaded the correct archive package for your system into ~/Downloads folder, run the following commands to install Openssl.

$ sudo tar xfvz ~/Downloads/openssl-1.1.1b.tar.gz --directory /opt/openssl

Figure-3: Extraction into /opt/openssl is complete.

$ perl --version Figure-4: Perl version.

Export LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable with the following value:

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/openssl/lib

Verify that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set with correct value by this command:

$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Figure-5: Value of environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is /opt/openssl/lib.

Issue the config commands:

 $ cd /opt/openssl/openssl-1.1.1b
 $ sudo ./config --prefix=/opt/openssl --openssldir=/opt/openssl/ssl

Figure-6: config command

Next, issue make command:

$ sudo make

Issue make test command to check for possible errors:

$ sudo make test

Figure-7: Bingo! All tests successful.

Issue make install commands:

$ sudo make install

Where is openssl binary being located?

Issue the following commands:

$ sudo updatedb                              # rebuild library cache
$ locate openssl | grep /opt/openssl/bin

Figure-8: Locate openssl binary.

The directory /usr/bin also has openssl binary which is an earler version. The presence of this unwanted openssl binary /usr/bin/openssl is going to cause us trouble, so we have to check this out!

Issue the following commands in order to tackle /usr/bin/openssl binary:

$ cd /usr/bin
$ ls -l openssl
$ sudo mv openssl openssl.old       # rename earlier version openssl to openssl.old

Figure-9: Rename earlier version of openssl binary to openssl.old.

Step 3 : Setup PATH environment variable

Openssl needs to set PATH environment variables which is to be set as shown below.

Create a file called openssl.sh under /etc/profile.d/ directory.

$ sudo touch /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh
$ sudo vi /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh

Add the following contents:

#!/bin/sh
export PATH=/opt/openssl/bin:${PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/openssl/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

Save and close the file. Make it executable using the following command.

$ sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh

Then, set the environment variables permanently by running the following command:

 $ source /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh

Log out or reboot your system.

Now, check the PATH environment variable:

$ echo $PATH

Figure-10: PATH envirnement variable having /opt/openssl/bin directory

$ which openssl Figure-11: The binary 'openssl' is under '/opt/openssl/bin' directory

Now, check the openssl version using command:

$ openssl version

Figure-12: openssl latest version

Now, check the openssl version using command line tool:

$ openssl

Figure-13: Check version through 'openssl' command line.

What will happen if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not properly set?

$ openssl

Figure-14: Error thrown by 'openssl' command line when 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' is not properly set.

As decribed by Step-3, you must set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to correct value which is /opt/openssl/lib

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/openssl/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Summary:

This method downloads, extracts, compiles, and installs the latest OpenSSL version 1.1.1b manually.

Comments

[Admin]

Openssl 1.1.1-1ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu has tar file openssl_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz of size 8.0 Mib, using which you can install Openssl_1.1.1. You try this @Siddalinga Swamy and let me know the result.

[Admin]

I hope @Siddalinga Swamy, you know to how to untar a tar file. However here is the sample extract command: $ sudo tar xfvz openssl_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz --directory /opt/openssl. I assumed that you are going to extract tar file into /opt/openssl/ directory. Good luck!

[Admin]

One more point @Siddalinga Swamy. If you want to reach me, then address me as @Marmayogi

[Admin]

@Marmayogi, Hi Thanks for your answer. The way you suggested is installing openssl1.1.1 externally. But i want download package from ubuntu through commands directly, i dont want build it externally. Also i want libssl package for openssl 1.1.1 version. For example, sudo apt install libssl-dev will install openssl1.1.0g in Ubunutu 18.04. Similarly i want openssl1.1.1

[Admin]

hi. @SiddalingaSwamy above in the launchpad link Marmayogi helpfully gave, you can see that it is a release for "cosmic" AKA : ubuntu 18.10. which is a non-LTS release but definitely not a beta. it is much more stable than 18.04 and what many ubuntu users including myself prefer. would you consider switching to ubuntu 18.10? in that case sudo apt install libssl would work. Also keep in mind 18.10 is basically just ubuntu 19.04 and ubuntu 19.04 is right around the corner. If you wait a couple more days you can upgrade to that and the same will work.

[Admin]

related, possible duplicate: askubuntu.com/questions/1102803/…

[tatsu]

well done! maybe something's up with the linking because of previous apt install, but the last screenshot shows 1.1.0

[Marmayogi]

Thank you @tatsu for pointing out version error. This has been corrected.

[Karma Yogi]

Thank you @Marmayogi

[Marmayogi]

Have you taken any decision @Karma Yogi, whether to wait until openssl 1.1.1b is available in current Ubuntu repositories or go ahead and install manually by yourself? You have not directly answered. I just want to know your ideas out of curiosity!

[Karma Yogi]

@Marmayogi I was just doing analysis of openssl migration and some documentation corresponding to it. But now i have decided to continue with openssl 1.0.2 and will not upgrade openssl till ubuntu comes up with openssl 1.1.1 in ubuntu 18.04

[Valentin]

@Marmayogi There is one problem with this: If someone is using PHP, then fopen might stop working for https URLs with the following error: error:1416F086:SSL routines:tls_process_server_certificate:certificate verify failed. This is because OPENSSDIR is set to /opt/openssl/ssl. To fix it, I went to /opt/openssl/ssl deleted the empty certs folder and create a link to the Ubuntu default folder for certificates '/etc/ssl/certs', with this command: ln -s /etc/ssl/certs /opt/openssl/ssl/

[Energetic Pixels]

@Marmayogi, Awesome 'explaining it with crayons'. Sometimes that is what needs to happen. I have been able to follow this same process above while installing OpenSSL 1.1.1g into Debian 10. I have even put it into a shell script with step-by-step comments so I can change it later on if needed. Please continue 'draw with crayons' for those of us (like me) that need it.

[Babacar Cissé DIA]

This answser is just gold!!

[Admin]

Openssl1.1.1 offically available on ubuntu20.04 onwards