Import psycopg2 Library not loaded: libssl.1.0.0.dylib

Question

When I try to run the command:

import psycopg2

I get the error:

ImportError: dlopen(/Users/gwulfs/anaconda/lib/python2.7/si         


        

Answer 1

After trying for more than a day I came to the below solution.

• brew reinstall openssl@1.0
• disable csrutil -> google it how to disable it, so that we could copy something
  to /usr/lib
• copy libssl.1.0.0.dylib to /usr/lib I did- sudo cp /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2s/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib /usr/lib
• copy libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib to /usr/lib I did- sudo cp /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2s/lib/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib /usr/lib

Similarly, if you face issue for Library not loaded: libssl.1.0.0.dylib just change the version from 1.0 to 1.1 of openssl and copy libssl.1.1 instead libssl.1.0 and libcrypto.1.1 instead libcrypto.1.0.0

Done you are all set to enjoy psycopg2 in mac.

Answer 2

I had the same problem when I updated openssl from 1.0.0 to 1.1.1d, and this fixed my problem:

brew upgrade postgresql

Answer 3

After bashing my head against the wall for a couple hours, these two solutions are guaranteed to work:

Option 1. This solves our problem without messing around with environment variables. Run this in your shell:

brew install --upgrade openssl
brew unlink openssl && brew link openssl --force

Boom! This upgrades the symbolic links in /usr/local for libssl and libcrypto. Now import psycopg2 works like a charm.

Option 2. If for some reason you would like to maintain the current symbolic links in usr/local, run this command in your shell:

export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/anaconda/lib/:$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH

Just make sure to replace $HOME/anaconda/lib above with the actual lib path. In my case, this was $HOME/miniconda2/envs/ali/lib.

This will only work for the shell/bash session you're currently in. To make the change persistent, add the export statement to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc file.

Thoughts: IMO #1 is the proper way to deal with this problem, but I left #2 in case some people prefer working with environment variables rather than fixing symbolic links (if, for example, they have software with a dependency on the older openssl file versions).

Answer 4

In relation to X.L.'s answer above, I didn't want to use Anaconda when I'm already using pip, so I just gave it the path to the Postgres libraries which worked for me (I'm using PostgreSQL.app on Mac OS 10.10)...

export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=/Library/PostgreSQL/9.5/lib:$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH

Answer 5

Homebrew upgrades default openssl from v1.0 to v1.1. If you tried @Scott solution to upgrade openssl:

brew install --upgrade openssl
brew unlink openssl && brew link openssl --force

you may run into ssh problem. You need to upgrade openssh as well.

brew upgrade openssh

according to this blog: https://blog.junjizhi.com/all/2019/12/17/git-fetch-libssl-error.html

Answer 6

After Homebrew wouldn't allow me to force link openssl the following worked fine:

pip install --global-option=build_ext \
            --global-option="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include" \
            --global-option="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" psycopg2

(this installation succeeded in a virtualenv on macOS)