[openssl-users] updating openssl

[Wim Lewis]

On 6. nóv. 2018, at 2:02 e.h., Paul <paul.davis at curatess.com> wrote:
> I configured Openvpn server on ubuntu 16.04 and ubuntu was using a old version of openssl 1.0.2 and I was updating openssl to v1.1.1
> Now I've installed the openssl but now unable to mv file installed to ln -s /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl /usr/bin/openssl
> failed to create symbolic link '/usr/bin/openssl': File exists
> 
> but then when I use openssl version
>  /usr/bin/openssl: No such file or directory


This is really a general unix question: I suspect you have a dangling symbolic link in /usr/bin, pointing to a (now-deleted) old copy of openssl. If so, you can just rm the dangling symbolic link.