SSL backend error when using OpenSSL

Question

I was trying to install pycurl in a virtualenv using pip and I got this error

ImportError: pycurl: libcurl link-time ssl backend (openssl) is different from         


        

Answer 1

After reading their INSTALLATION file, I was able to solve my problem by setting an environment variable and did a reinstall

• remove existing pycurl installation

  pip uninstall pycurl

• export variable with your link-time ssl backend (which is openssl above)

  export PYCURL_SSL_LIBRARY=openssl

• then, re-install pycurl with no cache

  pip install pycurl --no-cache-dir

There could be other solution out there but this works perfectly for me on a virtualenv and pip installation.