Homebrew refusing to link OpenSSL

Question

I\'m on: OSX 10.11.6, Homebrew version 0.9.9m OpenSSL 0.9.8zg 14 July 2015

I\'m trying to play with with dotnetcore and by following their instructions,

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Answer 1

None of these solutions worked for me on OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. Probably because OS X has a native version of openssl that it believes is superior, and as such, does not like tampering.

So, I took the high road and started fresh...

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Manually install and symlink

cd /usr/local/src  

• If you're getting "No such file or directory", make it:

  cd /usr/local && mkdir src && cd src

Download openssl:

curl --remote-name https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2h.tar.gz

Extract and cd in:

tar -xzvf openssl-1.0.2h.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.0.2h

Compile and install:

./configure darwin64-x86_64-cc --prefix=/usr/local/openssl-1.0.2h shared
make depend
make
make install

Now symlink OS X's openssl to your new and updated openssl:

ln -s /usr/local/openssl-1.0.2h/bin/openssl /usr/local/bin/openssl

Close terminal, open a new session, and verify OS X is using your new openssl:

openssl version -a