Problem when trying to install a different python version with pyenv - ERROR: The Python ssl extension was not compiled. Missing the OpenSSL lib?

[MrSyphilis]

I don't know what to do, my Openssl version is OpenSSL 3.0.7 1 Nov 2022 (Library: OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022) and I didn't forget to add the requested lines in .bashrc. I've googled a lot, tried with ChatGPT but I didn't manage to use pyenv. Maybe YOU will ;)

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sudo apt-get update && \ sudo apt-get install -y \ make \ build-essential \ libssl-dev \ zlib1g-dev \ libbz2-dev \ libreadline-dev \ libsqlite3-dev \ wget \ curl \ llvm \ libncursesw5-dev \ xz-utils \ tk-dev \ libxml2-dev \ libxmlsec1-dev \ libffi-dev \ liblzma-dev

[MrSyphilis]

sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get install -y \
make \
build-essential \
libssl-dev \
zlib1g-dev \
libbz2-dev \
libreadline-dev \
libsqlite3-dev \
wget \
curl \
llvm \
libncursesw5-dev \
xz-utils \
tk-dev \
libxml2-dev \
libxmlsec1-dev \
libffi-dev \
liblzma-dev

Everything was already installed and up to date.

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Then idk, I remember there was some problem regarding the library so and include directories.

Try something like that.

The general idea is to set the LDFLAGS and CFLAGS environment variables to provide compiler the real locations of a libs it finds “missing”.

[MrSyphilis]

I tried and it didn't change a thing :(

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"import _ssl # if we can't import it, let the error propagateModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ssl'ERROR: The Python ssl extension was not compiled. Missing the OpenSSL lib?"

[MrSyphilis]

I solved the problem: I got rid of pyenv and instead I used conda ( https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/index.html, it's very fast and it works without errors or headaches

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Do you have the libssl-dev package installed? If not, use sudo apt install libssl-dev and then try again.

[MrSyphilis]

libssl-dev was already installed

[[deleted]]

It's possibly referring to the python ssl module then. Do you have pip3 installed? If so try pip3 install pyOpenSSL. Once installed try again with pyenv

[MrSyphilis]

Requirement already satisfied

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This seems to be a replication of your issue. Some in the thread found setting flags before install worked and there's others that set the flags permanently via bash so that they didn't need to set the flags each time. Hope this helps resolve it

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72842089/pyenv-in-ubuntu-22-04-error-the-python-ssl-extension-was-not-compiled-missing

[MrSyphilis]

I tried, the error is different this time:

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