Question about OpenSSL .....

[Nicola Tuveri]

Sorry,

I forgot to include also a link to INSTALL.md

I am linking the preview from PR#12109 again, as it has been improved
to leverage Markdown formatting to be more readable:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/be101175badd30402d2e480a79e98ade1343cbfd/INSTALL.md#installing-openssl


Same caveat as before: at some point the link above will likely be
broken once the PR is merged, but the updated INSTALL.md file will be
available at

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/INSTALL.md#installing-openssl

On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 16:56, Nicola Tuveri <nic.tuv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello and welcome!
>
> > On my system (Debian 10 - Buster) is OpenSSL installed with Version 1.1.
> > Now, I want to install OpenSSL 3.x, but which is the best way for that?
> >
> > Deinstall the old one, or?
>
> First, keep in mind that 3.x is still in alpha development stage, so
> using it as the system-wide library is not at all recommended.
>
> Even after 3.0 will be released officially, replacing the system wide
> installation of OpenSSL provided by your Linux distribution is a very
> risky business, as many of the required and optional binary packages
> the distribution provides are depending on the version of `libcrypto`
> and `libssl` shipped within the official OpenSSL packages from your
> distribution.
>
> The recommended thing to do when you want to build applications from
> sources to use a different version of OpenSSL than what is shipped
> with your distribution is to have a custom installation of OpenSSL
> (somewhere outside of your linker default path).
>
> You can read more about it on the NOTES.UNIX file in your source
> tarball, or at https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/OpenSSL_1_1_1-stable/NOTES.UNIX
> .
>
> Note the link above is from the 1.1.1 stable branch, as in master soon
> it will likely be replaced with a markdown version of the same file
> (PR #12109): you can see a preview of the markdown version of it at
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/be101175badd30402d2e480a79e98ade1343cbfd/NOTES-Unix.md
> but beware this link is likely going to be broken at some point after
> the PR is merged (but at that point you will be able to find the same
> file in `master`).
>
>
> Hope this helps!
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nicola Tuveri