Re: Deb 8.4 OpenSSL headers

[Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>]

Thanks very much, that was the correct name: libssl-dev, not openssl-dev or similar...Nick

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 4:33 PM, deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:

Nicholas Geovanis wrote:

> I can't tell which debian 8.4 package provides the C headers for OpenSSL,
> the "Usual suspects" such as openssl-devel and the like do not exist,
> dpkg-query doesn't seem to find anything likely. Would some kind person
> give me a clue where to find the OpenSSL C header files in the Debian
> packaging universe?
> Many thanks....Nick G

Not sure what you exactly mean, but I use this
dpkg -L libssl-dev:amd64



$ apt-cache show libssl-dev
Package: libssl-dev
Source: openssl
Version: 1.0.1t-1+deb8u5
Installed-Size: 6703
Maintainer: Debian OpenSSL Team <pkg-openssl-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libssl1.0.0 (= 1.0.1t-1+deb8u5), zlib1g-dev
Description-en: Secure Sockets Layer toolkit - development files
 This package is part of the OpenSSL project's implementation of the SSL
 and TLS cryptographic protocols for secure communication over the
 Internet.
 .
 It contains development libraries, header files, and manpages for libssl
 and libcrypto.