# Error on asterisk installation: ld: cannot find -lssl **URL:** \ **Category:** Asterisk Support\ **Created:** [April 7, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/error-on-asterisk-installation-ld-cannot-find-lssl/59 "2005-04-07T20:40:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stickman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@stickman](https://community.asterisk.org/u/stickman)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/error-on-asterisk-installation-ld-cannot-find-lssl/59/1 "2005-04-07T20:40:24Z")
Hi everyone, hope someone here has a hint for me what might help on this: I am trying to get asterisk 1.0.7 to run under SuSE linux 9.0 (x86) and so far failed to even install it. make install does quite a list of things before it exits with > ld: cannot find -lssl > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Google did not find anything matching this and I also could not find anything using the forum search here. The package dependencies are all resolved. Had overseen one or two, but google was helpful at this. So now I am getting the above error message. Also tried to install on a debian machine (also x86) with the exactly same result. So if anyone of you has an idea what might resolve this or what exactly causes this so I can find a way to resolve it I would really appreciate some help. Thanx in advance ---
**Author:** ![SGM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SGM](https://community.asterisk.org/u/SGM)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/error-on-asterisk-installation-ld-cannot-find-lssl/59/2 "2005-04-07T22:42:12Z")
This means you need the openssl-devel package. ---
**Author:** ![stickman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@stickman](https://community.asterisk.org/u/stickman)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/error-on-asterisk-installation-ld-cannot-find-lssl/59/3 "2005-04-08T13:15:16Z")
Thanx! This solved the problem. So obviously I had not resolved all dependencies. Now I seem to have. The configuration will probably take some time as I have to read into it first, but asterisk is running now.