nagios- nrpe installation error(configure: error: Cannot find ssl libraries)

[ankur.trapasiya]

i have installed nagios and i want to install nrpe. While installing NRPE, when i execute (/home/abc/nrpe/configure)

./configure

it stops after reaching the following line

...
checking for type of socket size... size_t
checking for SSL headers... SSL headers found in /usr
checking for SSL libraries... configure: error: Cannot find ssl libraries

I have installed libssl-dev and openssl package as i found them as a solution for this error.

I tried the following option also

./configure --with-ssl=/usr/bin/openssl --with-ssl-lib=/usr/lib

But the error remains.

What can be the possible solution for this ? I am using ubuntu 12.04 as my operating system. Thanks in advance.

[safwanlmu]

Make a link of the libssl.so.version to libssl.so. I was able to install nrpe using this on oneric.

cd /usr/lib

ln -s libssl.so.0.9.8 libssl.so

[RHAnthony]

I am still having the issue as well after installing libssl-dev, and I also can not see any ssl files in /usr/lib

root@aspen:/usr/lib# sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libssl-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@aspen:/usr/lib# ls libssl*
ls: cannot access libssl*: No such file or directory
root@aspen:/usr/lib#

I then put in this command

dpkg -L libssl-dev

... which showed a libssl.so inside of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

I made a link to it with:

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so /usr/lib/libssl.so

..and then was able to configure and make my nrpe install!

[demetriades]

I was also having this issue, even after creating a link to the libssl.so file in /lib/i386-linux-gnuin /usr/lib. This was quite frustrating!

I've found a solution which worked for me at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...3#post12238023

[majordom]

apt-get install apt-file
apt-file update
apt-file search libssl | grep libssl-dev
with the answer of this last command, you'll find where are located the librairies

for me it was : libssl-dev: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libssl.so


So the "configure" command is : ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/bin/openssl --with-ssl-lib=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/


Enjoy

[tc7]

I am still having the issue as well after installing libssl-dev, and I also can not see any ssl files in /usr/lib

root@aspen:/usr/lib# sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libssl-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@aspen:/usr/lib# ls libssl*
ls: cannot access libssl*: No such file or directory
root@aspen:/usr/lib#

I then put in this command

dpkg -L libssl-dev

... which showed a libssl.so inside of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

I made a link to it with:

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so /usr/lib/libssl.so

..and then was able to configure and make my nrpe install!

The above worked fine for me on Ubuntu 12.10 x64 - thanks.