How to install openssl 1.1.1 on CentOS 7

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How To Install OpenSSL 1.1.1 on CentOS 7

This tutorial goes through how to install openssl 1.1.1 on CentOS 7, since the yum repo only installs up to openssl 1.0.

Requirements

Upgrade the system

yum -y update

Install required packages

yum install -y make gcc perl-core pcre-devel wget zlib-devel

Download the latest version of OpenSSL source code

wget https://ftp.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.1k.tar.gz

Configure, build and install OpenSSL

Uncompress the source file

tar -xzvf openssl-1.1.1k.tar.gz

Change to the OpenSSL directory

cd openssl-1.1.1k

Configure the package for compilation

./config --prefix=/usr --openssldir=/etc/ssl --libdir=lib no-shared zlib-dynamic

Compile package

make

Test compiled package

make test

Install compiled package

make install

Export library path

Create environment variable file

vim /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh

Add the following content

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib64

Load the environment variable

source /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh

Verify the OpenSSL version

openssl version

Hello, how do I install it as a devel package? thanks;

Really helpful, thanks a lot.

And for anyone who encountered: "openssl: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory", check if libssl.so.1.1 is actually under /usr/lib (my case). If so, modify /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh as follows and source again:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib64:/usr/lib:/usr/lib64

At 2024 Oct, https://ftp.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.1k.tar.gz is no more available

Please use this command instead:

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