Sunday, August 25, 2024

After installing Rocky Linux 9, I ran into the following error:

Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/wheel/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/wheel/ (Caused by SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")) - skipping
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement wheel (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for wheel
WARNING: pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.

Running python3 -m ssl resulted in the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ibarwick/.pyenv/versions/3.9.16/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/home/ibarwick/.pyenv/versions/3.9.16/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/home/ibarwick/.pyenv/versions/3.9.16/lib/python3.9/ssl.py", line 99, in 
    import _ssl             # if we can't import it, let the error propagate
ImportError: libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Executing dnf provides */"libssl.so.1.1" reveals that this is provided by the package compat-openssl11, which is not installed by default. Installing that resolved the issue.

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