Upgrading OpenSSL

[Gabriel2010]

Hello

It's a nice-looking RHL 8 system with version openssl-0.9.6b-29. Needs to be upgraded to latest version.

1. Anybody knows the best way to do an "upgrade" of openssl w/o breaking other programs in the system?

I did an rpm-e openssl, & it lists other programs that depend on it. Althought it can be forced to ignore dependencies, best not to with openssl, I think.

2. Should a source be installed & assume will go just fine?

TIA!

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[axman505]

With anything, there is always teh chance of breaking other programs when you upgrade. I have a source install of openssl on my redhat 8 system. I just upgraded over the old source, and programs still worked, nothing seemed to terribly break.

 

[Gabriel2010]

Ok.

Did you by any chance specified a prefix at instalation time? Maybe /usr/local/openssl/bin or /usr/local/bin ?

Thanks

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[axman505]

Here is my configure string:

./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl

 

[Gabriel2010]

Ok, I ran the ./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl and a bit early to find out of any bad issues.
The command rpm -q openssl still reports the old version
Thanks again mates!

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