Re: BUG #18807: libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file

PG Bug reporting form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> Your documentation states that the minimum requirement is OpenSSL 1.0.x
> version: "OpenSSL is also required for random number generation on platforms
> that do not have /dev/urandom (except Windows). The minimum required version
> is 1.0.1". But when I tried to use the pg_dump utility, I got an error:
> "error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory"
> And libcrypto.so.1.1 refers to the OpenSSL 1.1.x version.

What the documentation means by that is that our source code can be
built against OpenSSL versions as far back as 1.0.x. Any particular
build, though, will work only with the OpenSSL major version it was
compiled with. I speculate that you are trying to use a compiled
package that was made on some other version of your OS. You didn't
say where you got the package from, so it's hard to offer more help
than that.

regards, tom lane