Cannot find OpenSSL's libraries when I try to install

[pocketmax]

sudo pecl install mongodb-beta
...
checking configuring libmongoc... ...
checking Use system libmongoc... no
checking for pkg-config... no
configure: error: Cannot find OpenSSL's libraries

I've tried with/without sudo. I've tried to just install the mongodb lib without the -beta. I have all the openssl libs and dev libs installed and it still gives me this message. I'm using ubuntu utopic

[pocketmax]

fixed it...

sudo apt-get install clibcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libssl-dev libsslcommon2-dev

[bjori]

Do you know if you had libbsl-dev installed, or if installing pkg-config fixed it?

Using pkg-config is generally preferable, but the fallback should work -- but you'll need to provide:
--with-openssl-dir=/path/to/openssl

[bjori]

(also "-beta" is no longer needed -- the 1.0.0-stable has been released :))

[pocketmax]

I already had libssl-dev and pkg-config installed already. After I installed those packages, I did a normal "sudo pecl install mogodb" and it worked without a problem.

[bjori]

The configure output said you were missing pkg-config

checking for pkg-config... no

Anyway, glad everything worked out. Let us know if you find any other issues!

[pocketmax]

ug, sorry. I was thinking of a different VM I was testing with. omg, it's the very next line BEFORE the openssl error line and I didn't notice it. Sorry, ID-10T issue.

[warrenca]

I'm running in OSX and tried the following commands

$ brew reinstall pkg-config
$ brew link openssl --force
$ sudo pecl install mongodb
....
install ok: channel://pecl.php.net/mongodb-1.1.2
configuration option "php_ini" is not set to php.ini location
You should add "extension=mongodb.so" to php.ini

[necromant2005]

Ubuntu 16.10
after installing:
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install clibcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libssl-dev libsslcommon2-dev

sudo pecl install mongodb
configure: error: Cannot find OpenSSL's libraries
ERROR: `/tmp/pear/temp/mongodb/configure' failed

[derickr]

@necromant2005 Can you post your "config.log" somewhere (pastebin.com)? And provide a link here?

[necromant2005]

I fixed the issue by installing extra libraries, the whole list
sudo apt-get install -y autoconf g++ make openssl libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config
sudo apt-get install -y libsasl2-dev

[zakhttp]

@pocketmax i did the same and it worked! thanks!

[Devidian]

@necromant2005 Thanks, worked for me on Debian 8.3 too!

[ghost]

On Ubuntu 16.04 I removed libcurl14-openssl-dev and works too

[ostojicmilica]

I am on Ubuntu 14.10 and I get same error but when I try to run everything that @necromant2005 said I get errors:

E: Package 'pkg-config' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package libsasl2-dev

[jmikola]

@ostojicmilica: Those look like apt-get errors. Both of those packages should certainly exist in 14.04:

• http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/pkg-config
• http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libsasl2-dev

If you're unable to get those installed, you may want to inquire in an Ubuntu support forum.

AFAIK, our config.m4 only relies on pkg-config for locating the system libbson or libmongoc libraries. PHP core also uses it for locating SSL libraries in PHP_SETUP_OPENSSL(); however, they fall back to searching common system paths if pkg-config is not available. For SASL, which is specific to the driver, we merely search some common system paths (i.e. pkg-config is not used).

Explicit paths for both OpenSSL and SASL may be set with the --with-openssl-dir=/path/to/ssl and --with-mongodb-sasl=/path/to/sasl options to the configure script, respectively. In that case, pkg-config would not be needed for detecting OpenSSL.

[ostojicmilica]

Maybe the problem is because I dont use 14.04, but 14.10 Ubuntu .

And can you tell me how to find these paths? @jmikola

[jmikola]

And can you tell me how to find these paths?

The OpenSSL library path will contain include/openssl/evp.h within it. The SASL library path should contain include/sasl/sasl.h within it. I'm discerning this by walking through the search logic in PHP_SETUP_OPENSSL() and this extensions' config.m4 file; however, I do not have a specific answer for your environment.

Maybe the problem is because I dont use 14.04, but 14.10 Ubuntu .

My mistake for misreading your last post. The packages are still present in 14.10, though:

• http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/pkg-config
• http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/libsasl2-dev

I should reiterate that if you are receiving the following errors:

E: Package 'pkg-config' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package libsasl2-dev

...that really hints at a problem with your operating system's package manager and is likely outside the scope of this PHP extension.

[zhukovra]

pecl install mongodb successfully builds with pkg-config and libssl-dev packages on Jessie. No additional packages like libcurl4-openssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libsasl2-dev is required.

[Syrok]

last solution:
sudo apt-get install pkg-config libssl-dev

[nmeegama]

Small correction for this command (in 2nd comment ) that I came across on Ubuntu 16.04
sudo apt-get install clibcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libssl-dev libsslcommon2-dev
Error : Unable to locate package clibcurl4-openssl-dev

So I tried
sudo apt-get install pkg-config libssl-dev libsslcommon2-dev
And this still worked

[geoherna]

@necromant2005 solution worked perfectly for me. Thanks ! 🍻

[berzavlu]

u r god! @necromant2005

[jmikola]

I've created PHPC-1237 so we can improve the installation notes on PHP.net to list a number of packages from #138 (comment). The current documentation is OS-agnostic, but I realize it'd be more helpful to list package names for the most common Linux distributions (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu and perhaps Fedora/CentOS).

[josergc]

sudo apt-get install clibcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libssl-dev libsslcommon2-dev

in xenial

sudo apt-get install  pkg-config libssl-dev libsslcommon2-dev 

fixed my problem. apt was complaining about clibcurl4-openssl-dev package is not found...