fix missing openssl files in catalina

fix_openssl_catalina.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo 'update brew'

brew update

echo 'upgrade brew'

brew upgrade

echo 'brew install openssl'

brew install [email protected]


echo 'backup existing lib files, if they exist'

if [ -f /usr/local/lib/libssl.dylib ]; then
    mv /usr/local/lib/libssl.dylib /usr/local/lib/libssl_bak.dylib
fi

if [ -f /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.dylib ]; then
    mv /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.dylib /usr/local/lib/libcrypto_bak.dylib
fi

# Leaving some commands to check directory contents 
# ls -al /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/1.1.1d/lib
# ls -al /usr/local/lib/libssl* && ls -al /usr/local/lib/libcrypto*

echo 'add symlink to missing openssl libs'

if [ -f /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/1.1.1d/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib ]; then
    sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/1.1.1d/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib /usr/local/lib/libssl.dylib
fi 

if [ -f /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/1.1.1d/lib/libcrypto.1.1.dylib ]; then
    sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/1.1.1d/lib/libcrypto.1.1.dylib /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.dylib
fi

OK, I think should be fine for a while now taking into account everyone's suggestions. Won't get ANY errors now for sure. I removed the now unnecessary directory changes.

hello, i had an issue with 'abort 6' when importing 'requests' package after updating to catalina. while searching for a solution, i was lead to this page. unfortunately none of the above worked for me, however...

updating to python 3.8 manually from python.org seemed to solve this issue very easily for me. i had to reinstall all my packages (w/ pip3) as i came across errors, but that wasn't so bad.

i don't see any of my projects having an issue with python3.8 so far (been using 3.7 for a while)

hope this helps someone!
thanks for all the additional suggestions and efforts!

cd /usr/local/lib
ln -sn ../Cellar/[email protected]/1.1.1g/lib/libcrypto.1.1.dylib libcrypto.dylib
ln -sn ../Cellar/[email protected]/1.1.1g/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib libssl.dylib

would be enough, no need to copy

cd /usr/local/lib
ln -sn ../Cellar/[email protected]/1.1.1g/lib/libcrypto.1.1.dylib libcrypto.dylib
ln -sn ../Cellar/[email protected]/1.1.1g/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib libssl.dylib

would be enough, no need to copy

This solved my issue perfectly! Thank you

cd /usr/local/lib
ln -sn ../Cellar/[email protected]/1.1.1g/lib/libcrypto.1.1.dylib libcrypto.dylib
ln -sn ../Cellar/[email protected]/1.1.1g/lib/libssl.1.1.dylib libssl.dylib

would be enough, no need to copy

You save my day, thank you so much!