# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**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 7, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/21 "2010-01-07T01:15:44Z")
Worked for me, libopenssl-ruby was the missing package. David Knoernschild wrote: > 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. ---
**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, 11:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/22 "2010-01-08T23:49:25Z")
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Lucas N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Install libopenssl-ruby1.9.1. Works on Ubuntu Karmic and better, but this is 8.04 (Hardy), you need to compile ruby 1.9.1 from source on these older versions of Ubuntu -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 9, 2010, 8:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/23 "2010-01-09T08:20:41Z")
Hi. Many thanks to all. I’ve solved to recompile src ruby1.9.1 after installation of libssl-dev, openssl and libssl0.9.8 I’ve compiled with that params: –with-openssl-dir, --with-readline-dir, --with-zlib-dir During compilation I receveid a warning : params unrecognized, but now webrick start. bye ---
**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 25, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/24 "2010-12-25T21:36:23Z")
Chad wrote in post #175543: > 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. Chad: thank you for your help. I was create a rails project tickets. I got this error " no such file to load - openssl" when I load my rails page: [http://localhost:3000/tickets](http://localhost:3000/tickets) Your solution solved my problem. ---
**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 1, 2011, 11:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/25 "2011-12-01T11:58:03Z")
find the correct answer on [http://blog.dhavalparikh.co.in/2011/10/solve-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-error/](http://blog.dhavalparikh.co.in/2011/10/solve-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-error/) ---
**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 25, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/26 "2013-06-25T17:33:21Z")
> 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 When building from source I do as much as possible as an ordinary user - you only need to be root to do the install, so I use sudo to do that part as root: ruby extconf.rb make sudo make install While installing rails 4.0.0 on top of ruby 2.0.0 I had the problem discussed in this thread. The above fix worked but then I got a similar error because zlib was missing. As well as the openssl package, there’s a zlib package in the ext directory which you build in the same way: cd …/zlib ruby extconf.rb make sudo make install ---
**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:** [September 15, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998/27 "2011-09-15T14:42:31Z")
If you are using rvm (ruby version manager) you need to do nexts steps: rvm pkg install openssl rvm remove 1.9.2 rvm install 1.9.2 --with-openssl-dir=$HOME/.rvm/usr [Previous page](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-ubuntu/77998.md?page=1)