“openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory” during Installation of Git

Question

Trying to install git on the Unix and Linux machines based on the instructions on Installing Git blog, and it is failing with the below error

make prefix=/u         


        

Answer 1

For ubuntu i installed openssl and libssl-dev

sudo apt install openssl libssl-dev

After checking configure file code, i found it is searching for "include/openssl/ssl.h" in predefined paths

You can find it on your system and can run configure with --with-openssl

E.g. if you found ssl.h in /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h then you can run below command

./configure --with-openssl=/usr/