# Openssl error - ubuntu **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 2, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998 "2006-12-02T13:17:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/1 "2006-12-02T13:17:14Z")
Help! Why do I continually get the following error? * * * ## irb(main):001:0\> require ‘openssl’ LoadError: no such file to load – openssl from (irb):1:in `require’ from (irb):1 I’ve tried everything in every post about this. I’ve blown away my ruby install like 6 times. How do I get ruby to recognize openssl? I’ve installed: ubuntu ruby 1.8.5 libopenssl-ruby libzlib-ruby libyaml-ruby libdrb-ruby liberb-ruby zlib1g-dev Any suggestions? Thank you, Chad ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 1:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/2 "2006-12-02T13:46:37Z")
do you have ‘openssl’ installed? try to install, libssl0.9.8 or highet and libssl-dev. jflez. Chad wrote: > Help! > > Why do I continually get the following error? > > * * * > > ## irb(main):001:0\> require ‘openssl’ LoadError: no such file to load – openssl from (irb):1:in `require’ from (irb):1 > > I’ve tried everything in every post about this. I’ve blown away my > ruby install like 6 times. How do I get ruby to recognize openssl? > > I’ve installed: > > ubuntu > ruby 1.8.5 > libopenssl-ruby > libzlib-ruby > libyaml-ruby > libdrb-ruby > liberb-ruby > zlib1g-dev > > Any suggestions? > > Thank you, > Chad ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/3 "2006-12-02T20:12:01Z")
Absolutely… I’m not a linux expert though, but I have a feeling they’re installing somewhere that ruby can’t see them. What can I do to ensure apt-get is behaving properly? See below: [/root] # apt-get install openssl Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done openssl is already the newest version. [/root] # apt-get install libssl-dev Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done libssl-dev is already the newest version. Thank you, Chad On Dec 2, 4:46 am, Jose francisco Gonzalez carmona [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > do you have ‘openssl’ installed? try to install, libssl0.9.8 or highet > and libssl-dev. > > jflez. ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/4 "2006-12-03T00:35:26Z")
I finally figured it out. I cleaned out all the current openssl files, then took the ruby 1.8.5 source, went into the ruby-1.8.5/ext/openssl directory and created the openssl make file: ruby extconf.rb make make install and that fiiiiinally but the libraries where they should go. ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/5 "2006-12-03T16:28:50Z")
On 12/3/06, Chad [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > and that fiiiiinally but the libraries where they should go. Thanks for sharing, I have tried about 1 week to get it going, without success!!! Cheers Robert – “The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet. Don’t be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas.” - Alan Kay ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 6:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/6 "2007-04-07T06:38:06Z")
I’ve followed this, and I’m still stuck. I’ve done the following: sudo apt-get install openssl sudo apt-get install libssl-dev sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8 gone into /ext/openssl/ and run ruby extconf.rb cd …/… make make install At least now all those commands work without failing to find openssl. Still, though, running irb and calling “require ‘openssl’” yeilds the very frustrating “no such file to load – libssl” What else am I forgetting to check? -Gaius Robert D. wrote: > On 12/3/06, Chad [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > and that fiiiiinally but the libraries where they should go. > > Thanks for sharing, I have tried about 1 week to get it going, without > success!!! > > Cheers > Robert > > – > “The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution > hasn’t started yet. Don’t be misled by the enormous flow of money into > bad > defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of > incomplete ideas.” > > - Alan Kay ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 6:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/7 "2007-04-07T06:44:36Z")
I solved my own problem: the make and make install should be run from the ext/openssl/ directory (and it’s fine if there’s “nothing to do for make”). -Gaius ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/8 "2008-06-11T15:15:35Z")
Chad wrote: > I finally figured it out. > > I cleaned out all the current openssl files, then took the ruby 1.8.5 > source, went into the ruby-1.8.5/ext/openssl directory and created the > openssl make file: > > ruby extconf.rb > make > make install > > and that fiiiiinally but the libraries where they should go. This information helped me when I was struggling with this problem today. I registed into this forum , immediately, only to thank you. Prasad ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/9 "2008-05-15T18:03:56Z")
Thanks for all the help. The full story of how I installed Rails can be found in [http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=257583#p257583](http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=257583#p257583) [http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=257583](http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=257583) Gaius Centus Novus wrote: > I solved my own problem: the make and make install should be run from > the ext/openssl/ directory (and it’s fine if there’s “nothing to do for > make”). > > -Gaius ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 11:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/10 "2008-06-19T11:50:53Z")
Thanks a lot pal, it worked perfectly for me too. I had the same openssl problem on a new ubuntu server box. Thanks for the tip. Chad wrote: > I finally figured it out. > > I cleaned out all the current openssl files, then took the ruby 1.8.5 > source, went into the ruby-1.8.5/ext/openssl directory and created the > openssl make file: > > ruby extconf.rb > make > make install > > and that fiiiiinally but the libraries where they should go. ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/11 "2008-06-19T16:20:12Z")
So much for distribution’s package managers making your life easier, huh? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/12 "2008-06-22T20:14:22Z")
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Lucas N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ## If you can still reproduce this, I would be interested in the outputs of “dpkg -l | grep ruby” and “dpkg -L libopenssl-ruby1.8” on your system. > > | Lucas N. > | removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/](http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/) | > | jabber: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | > > If I rememer right, ‘require “openssl”’ raised an error when I compiled > from source of ruby-1.8.6 or ruby-1.8.7 after Ubuntu-8.04 fresh install. I did not try the ruby package. Prasad ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 9:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/13 "2008-06-20T09:50:58Z")
On 19/06/08 at 23:18 +0900, Marc H. wrote: > So much for distribution’s package managers making your life easier, > huh? 😉 I don’t think anybody reported a bug about that to Ubuntu or Debian. And Ubuntu just imports the Ruby packages from Debian. Also, it works perfectly fine here. On a clean Debian install: apt-get install ruby libopenssl-ruby ; ruby -e ‘require “openssl”’ doesn’t raise any error. If you can still reproduce this, I would be interested in the outputs of “dpkg -l | grep ruby” and “dpkg -L libopenssl-ruby1.8” on your system. ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 8:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/14 "2008-12-24T08:15:05Z")
Nate W. wrote: > This worked for me: > > 1. Compile SSL from scratch > > 2. Make note of the install location, shown as > /where/you/installed/openssl below > > 3. Use the earlier instruction (above) to manually create the extension: > > cd ext/openssl > …/…/ruby extconf.rb > –with-openssl-include=/where/you/installed/openssl/include > –with-openssl-lib=/where/you/installed/openssl > LD\_RUN\_PATH=/where/you/installed/openssl/lib make > make install > > I’m not sure the LD\_RUN\_PATH is needed, but I’ve had problems with Ruby > before so included it to be safe. > > -Nate What does this error message on my blog mean? I’ve posted my blog on a site ([houseblogs.net](http://houseblogs.net)). If you go to the blog address directly, it comes up fine. But if you click on it from [houseblogs.net](http://houseblogs.net) you get this message: The requested URL /community/extensions/Blogs/greybox/0 was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.0.61 (Unix) mod\_ssl/2.0.61 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod\_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod\_auth\_passthrough/2.1 PHP/5.2.4 Server at [www.houseblogs.net](http://www.houseblogs.net) Port 80 ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/15 "2008-08-28T19:30:17Z")
This worked for me: 1. Compile SSL from scratch 2. Make note of the install location, shown as /where/you/installed/openssl below 3. Use the earlier instruction (above) to manually create the extension: cd ext/openssl …/…/ruby extconf.rb –with-openssl-include=/where/you/installed/openssl/include –with-openssl-lib=/where/you/installed/openssl LD\_RUN\_PATH=/where/you/installed/openssl/lib make make install I’m not sure the LD\_RUN\_PATH is needed, but I’ve had problems with Ruby before so included it to be safe. -Nate ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/16 "2009-03-20T23:43:23Z")
If you’d rather not build form source, just do this (it worked for me on Intrepid): sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby and then try again. Amar Eis wrote: > Nate W. wrote: > > > This worked for me: > > > > 1. Compile SSL from scratch > > > > 2. Make note of the install location, shown as > > /where/you/installed/openssl below > > > > 3. Use the earlier instruction (above) to manually create the extension: > > > > cd ext/openssl > > …/…/ruby extconf.rb > > –with-openssl-include=/where/you/installed/openssl/include > > –with-openssl-lib=/where/you/installed/openssl > > LD\_RUN\_PATH=/where/you/installed/openssl/lib make > > make install > > > > I’m not sure the LD\_RUN\_PATH is needed, but I’ve had problems with Ruby > > before so included it to be safe. > > > > -Nate > > What does this error message on my blog mean? > I’ve posted my blog on a site ([houseblogs.net](http://houseblogs.net)). If you go to the blog > address directly, it comes up fine. But if you click on it from > [houseblogs.net](http://houseblogs.net) you get this message: > The requested URL /community/extensions/Blogs/greybox/0 was not found on > this server. > Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use > an ErrorDocument to handle the request. > Apache/2.0.61 (Unix) mod\_ssl/2.0.61 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod\_bwlimited/1.4 > FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod\_auth\_passthrough/2.1 PHP/5.2.4 Server at > [www.houseblogs.net](http://www.houseblogs.net) Port 80 ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/17 "2010-01-08T19:50:13Z")
I to all. I’m new for the forum, and not many able with linux e ruby, but I’m on IT from many years. I’ve read your discussion (and many other) … I have the same problem … “no such file to load – openssl” with ruby /script/server I’ve installed ruby-1.9.1-p376 (without openssl) on a vmware ubuntu 8.04 virtual machine. For what I’ve understand, our suggests works fine on ruby 1.8 / 1.9, but for 1.9.1 I’ve not found anything. Installing openssl, libssl-dev or libopenssl-ruby1.9 on my filesystem was created …/ruby/1.9.0, but my ruby are on /ruby/1.9.1 !! How I can download ruby1.9.1 with /ext subdir … or how I can integrate with openssl my ruby1.9.1. Sorry for my english … and for my stupid question ☹ I hope my question are understandable. fellons ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/18 "2010-01-08T19:57:02Z")
Roberto F. wrote: > I to all. This may not address your concerns at all, but something we found out last year is that Debian / Ubuntu Server adopt GNUTLS for some facilities as opposed to OpenSSL, which has some implications for some things like behaviors with adoptions of certificates that are self-signed, or not signed by canonical sources. OpenLDAP was the one we were seeing this on. It worked with internal certs on CentOS, but not on Ubuntu Server, which uses GNUTLS instead of OpenSSL for this. xc ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/19 "2010-01-08T19:58:48Z")
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Roberto F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > How I can download ruby1.9.1 with /ext subdir … > or how I can integrate with openssl my ruby1.9.1. Recompile and reinstall ruby 1.9.1 with the libssl-dev package installed, and you might want to synchronize your system time with ‘sudo ntpdate [ntp.ubuntu.com](http://ntp.ubuntu.com)’ before compiling… I’ve had it refuse to compile the openssl extension due to a skewed clock before. Good luck… -Jonathan N. ---
**Author:** ![Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Chad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/20 "2010-01-08T23:17:12Z")
On 09/01/10 at 03:50 +0900, Roberto F. wrote: > Installing openssl, libssl-dev or libopenssl-ruby1.9 > on my filesystem was created …/ruby/1.9.0, > but my ruby are on /ruby/1.9.1 !! Install libopenssl-ruby1.9.1. [Next page](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998.md?page=2)