When to execute anchor test, the terminal would be shown somethings like libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, and the fact is your openssl has already been installed, so why is that?

Before we start, you can have a check with openssl version in your terminal.

Yes, as you can see, in CentOS 9, the default openssl version is 3.0+, this is the reason why you got the error with libssl.so.1.1, because you really do not have openssl 1.1.0+, but 3.0+ instead, which is not suitable.

We quickly start to fix it by installing openssl 1.1.0+, and a good news is you don’t really have to uninstall the 3.0+ version, according to here. So let’s just simply install it by the source package following the steps.

Downloading source code by using this official link, as I cannot know what time you see this article and whether there is a update for openssl 1.1.0+, so just scrolling down and find the place as the picture shows bellow, then right click the file name and copy address link.

Please make sure you copy the link of openssl-1.1.xxxx.tar.gz, not the other versions.

Then go back to your terminal, using wget [paste the copied link here withouth square brackets], for me is like bellow.

Installing tools and dependencies before for after usage.

sudo dnf update -y #this will make sure your local software list is updated to latest version.

sudo dnf group install ‘Development Tools‘ -y #install development tools which includes compile tools.

sudo dnf install perl-core zlib-devel -y #and these two things too.

OK, now you have the compile tools for OpenSSL, let’s go and install it!

tar -xzvf opensslxxxx.tar.gz #the file’s name is as what you have downloaded from official website.

cd opensslxxxx #go into the folder that extracted right above, the name should be your openssl source file erased .tar.gz.

./config --prefix=/opt/openssl --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl shared zlib

sudo make && make install #just wait, this will be finished soon.(or not lol)

sudo mv /bin/openssl /bin/openssl.backup #we’ll use new 1.1.0+ one to instead old 3.0+ one, so just move it as a backup.

sudo vi /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh #openning this file for export path of our new openssl in $PATH.

#paste this all into the opening edit window.
OPENSSL_PATH=”/usr/local/ssl/bin”
export OPENSSL_PATH
PATH=$PATH:$OPENSSL_PATH
export PATH

:wq #write and quit the file.

sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh #make this file can be executed.

source /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh #export our new openssl execute path into $PATH.

echo $PATH #if you like, you can have a check with this, should be at the end of the string.

sudo vi /etc/ld.so.conf.d/openssl-1.1.1i.conf #this is for shared libs.

#paste this into the window opened for openssl-1.1.1i.conf
/usr/local/ssl/lib

:wq #using it to quit file edit mode.

sudo ldconfig -v #to refresh dynamic link.

which openssl

openssl version

Yours should be similar(according to our official version may not exactly be the same) with mine like bellow.

I heard that there is a way to deal with the problem by using lsb packages.

However, unfortunately, I’m not sure whether it should be true, due to Red Hat Team doesn’t support redhat-lsb/redhat-lsb-core in CentOS 9 until now as this link from bugzilla.

If you have interest in, you can have a check about this one I found, but just not working for me.

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