I need openssl-1.1. After system upgrade I have v3 and pacman -S openssl-1.1 finds conflicts

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I just did a system upgrade and now I have openssl 3.0.8-1. I tried to upgrade my rstudio-desktop-bin but it says it needs openssl-1.1. I tried to install openssl-1.1 but it has conflicts. Does anyone know how to get rstudio-desktop-bin to work with the current stable branch?

Trying rstudio-desktop-bin install:

[mcsimenc@mcsimenc rstudio-desktop-bin]$ makepkg -si PKGBUILD 
==> Making package: rstudio-desktop-bin 2023.03.0.386-2 (Sun 26 Mar 2023 12:52:43 AM PDT)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Installing missing dependencies...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) openssl-1.1-1.1.1.t-1

Total Installed Size:  5.52 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                                                          [#############################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                                                        [#############################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                                                             [#############################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                                                       [#############################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
openssl-1.1: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1 exists in filesystem
openssl-1.1: /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.1 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.
==> Missing dependencies:
  -> openssl-1.1
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.

Trying openssl-1.1 install:

[mcsimenc@mcsimenc rstudio-desktop-bin]$ sudo pacman -S openssl-1.1
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) openssl-1.1-1.1.1.t-1

Total Installed Size:  5.52 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                                                          [#############################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                                                        [#############################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                                                             [#############################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                                                       [#############################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
openssl-1.1: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1 exists in filesystem
openssl-1.1: /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.1 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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Hi @mcsimenc,

OpenSSL was changed quite a while ago. Perhaps you missed it? Anyway, you can have both installed, I do:

$ pamac search openssl
[...]
openssl-1.1                                                                                                                                                                                          [Installed] 1.1.1.t-1                        core
The Open Source toolkit for Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security
openssl                                                                                                                                                                                              [Installed] 3.0.8-1                          core
The Open Source toolkit for Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security

They’re both in the core repository, so install version 1.1 with:

pamac install openssl-1.1

Hope this helps!

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Thanks @Mirdarthos. At the bottom of my post I showed that I was not able to install openssl-1.1. It finds conflicts with libcryto and libssl.

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Maybe

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/lib{crypto,ssl}.so.1.1

would show the conflicting package?

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Awesome, @Takakage, thank you. This shows “No package owns” (below). So it seems probably it is not being used by anything in the system since I did an upgrade? I can manually remove them and try to install v1.1 again but I don’t want to break anything and I know these are important files. But if everything is relying on v3 now it should be ok, right?

$ sudo pacman -Qo /urs/lib/lib{crypto,ssl}.so.1.1
error: No package owns /urs/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1
error: No package owns /urs/lib/libssl.so.1.1
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you have these:

openssl-1.1: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1 exists in filesystem
openssl-1.1: /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.1 exists in filesystem

which are usually the result of a messed up update, or when installing from non official sources, so use overwrite:

sudo pacman -S openssl-1.1 --overwrite '*'
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Thanks @brahma. The Arch system maintenance wiki recommends not using --overwrite, but I just want to not screw anything important depending on these files. But since I did a system update I expect everything important should be depending on openssl v3 and maybe something I installed from AUR is depending on these. I will try it when I can afford to spend some time fixing things if it does break something and report here if it does.

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You made a type-error (in /urs), the correct command is :

sudo pacman -Qo /usr/lib/lib{crypto,ssl}.so.1.1

which no doubt will show you that openssl-1.1 is already installed…

Note: to be on the safe side, best to make a timeshift backup before doing any updates :wink: .
Cheers,
Eddy

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Great catch @Oldhabbits. The correct command shows unowned package as well though…and they are there (below). Suggestions?

$ ls -1 /usr/lib/lib{crypto,ssl}.so.1.1
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1
/usr/lib/libssl.so.1.1

$ sudo pacman -Qo /usr/lib/lib{crypto,ssl}.so.1.1
error: No package owns /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1
error: No package owns /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.1
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Another idea is to install rstudio-desktop, which replaces rstudio-desktop-bin. It has a dependency on openssl but not openssl-1.1. The downside is having a longer build step, idk how long, as it would be compiling from source.

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Just remove those two files manually then, and install the “real” openssl-1.1 package with pamac or pacman. No harm will come upon you if you do both things in succession… Reboot afterwards…
Cheers,
Eddy