[Pkg-openssl-devel] Error: Package 'libssl1.1' has no installation candidate

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2023-11-30 20:26:52 [-0500], Samuel Connelly wrote:
> Dear OpenSSL maintainers,
Hi,

> I am trying to install this third-party software called N-Link
> <https://lights0123.com/n-link/>, a tool for managing files on the TI-Nspire
> CX II graphing calculator. It provides a Debian package on the page, so I
> tried to install it. However, it requires libssl.so.1.1. As I went to apt to
> install libssl1.1, it claimed it was a virtual package and has no
> installation candidate. This confused me because the Debian page
> <https://packages.debian.org/en/bullseye/libssl1.1> for it has a download
> link. I would prefer to use the official repositories over a manually
> downloaded .deb file if I could help it, especially since Discord does not
> have a package repository.

Bullseye has the libssl1.1 package and you should be able to install it
via apt. However you should have it installed since a lot of software
depends on it.
The following release (Bookworm) has replaced libssl1.1 with libssl3.

> Sincerely,
> 
> Samuel "clevor" Connelly

Sebastian