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

By default, homebrew gave me OpenSSL version 1.1 and I was looking for version 1.0 instead. This worked for me.

To install version 1.0:

brew install https://github.com/tebelorg/Tump/releases/download/v1.0.0/openssl.rb

Then I tried to symlink my way through it but it gave me the following error:

ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2t/include/openssl /usr/bin/openssl
ln: /usr/bin/openssl: Operation not permitted

Finally linked openssl to point to 1.0 version using brew switch command:

brew switch openssl 1.0.2t
Cleaning /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2t
Opt link created for /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2t

Answer 2

The solution above from edwardthesecond worked for me too on Sierra

 brew install openssl
 cd /usr/local/include 
 ln -s ../opt/openssl/include/openssl 
 ./configure && make

Other steps I did before were:

• installing openssl via brew

  brew install openssl
  

• adding openssl to the path as suggested by homebrew

  brew info openssl
  echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
  

Answer 3

for me this is what worked...

I edited the ./bash_profile and added below command

export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl/bin:$PATH"