SSL backend error when using OpenSSL

Question

I was trying to install pycurl in a virtualenv using pip and I got this error

ImportError: pycurl: libcurl link-time ssl backend (openssl) is different from         


        

Answer 1

Recently while upgrading a Django project I had the similar error. But this time setting the environment variable did not work. So I had to set both environment variable export PYCURL_SSL_LIBRARY=openssl and pass the flag --global-option="with-openssl".

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