Getting error: Unable to load crypto library.. OpenSSL might not be installed on this system

In the other thread you have been given links to descriptions how to install libssl 1.x on newer Ubuntu. To discuss any problems with following the instructions, please continue there. Neither mise nor asdf do solve that problem.


To know how asdf was installed, it might help to check where the “binary” currently lives. On which -a asdf do you get locations in your home or outside of it, or even both?

Also, what plugins do you have installed?


Also, please drop the donor a message and ask them how they installed asdf.

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I will let you know that the donor does not talk to me and or care to have any kind of contact with me in anyway shape and or form, He has been ignoring my messages for 9 + months now.

So if they ignore you, it might be better to stop ignoring us, and answer the questions we asked, and to report problems you have with the resources given.

I can’t help you with the libcrypto thing, as I don’t use Ubuntu and don’t know how it deals with this stuff. I have to trust the users who linked the guides, and I have to trust you to read and follow them.

I can’t help much with asdf and Mise specifics either, as I use nix which works completely different. But I asked some questions which you have to answer, to enable us to figure out how asdf is installed and how to remove it.

Though also I have to ask, if the donor doesn’t talk to you anymore and ghosts you, can you trust them to not have some kind of trojan on the system to scrape your data?

As Aston suggested earlier, I am at a point where I’d suggest a reinstallation. This will not solve your problems, but it will heal a potentially infected and breached system. Also we will then have a known good base to iterate together.

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Then to answer your question, I will do a reinstallation as i know and i understand as i have read multiple times every single response that i have been given on my original thread and have searched endlessly about it. I think that i am to the point of starting from scratch and using mise this time and it will give me some experience as i have been receiving wonderful experience of trying to solve this problem. As for the person who ghosts me there’s absolutely nothing that i can do about that. I will let you know in time about me completely starting fresh with this computer. Thank you for everything.

I just wanted to say thank you for all the help and Happy new year to you. I have decided to reformat and i am currently deciding between Ubuntu and Linux mint. I also wanted to know if asdf comes automatically installed after i reformat.

Linux Mint is just an Ubuntu derivative, using a Gnome2 inspired DE if I recall correctly.

To be honest, for a beginner either is fine, as long as you are aware what Ubuntu version you are using under the hood.

And no, asdf does not come preinstalled on any distribution as far as I am aware of.

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This should be the way to install erlang with latest asdf… but You need to install go now to make it work. Please note my comments are in french… it comes from my own docs. Adapt path to your liking, because /export is a custom thing I do. Also note that I did not make it by myself, it comes directly from official documentations for go, asdf, asdf-erlang.

Go

Installation par les sources. Go est utilisé par asdf.

$ cd /export/src/

$ wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.25.5.linux-arm64.tar.gz

$ tar -xzf go1.25.5.linux-arm64.tar.gz

$ sudo mv go /usr/local/

$ vim \~/.bashrc

…

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

Asdf

$ cd /export/src/

$ git clone https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf.git --branch v0.18.0

$ make

$ sudo cp asdf /usr/local/bin/

$ vim \~/.bashrc

…

export PATH=“${ASDF_DATA_DIR:-$HOME/.asdf}/shims:$PATH”

. <(asdf completion bash)

$ . \~/.bashrc

Erlang

Ce qui est recommandé comme prérequis pour Ubuntu…

$ sudo apt-get -y install build-essential autoconf m4 libncurses5-dev libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev libwxgtk-webview3.0-gtk3-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libpng-dev libssh-dev unixodbc-dev xsltproc fop libxml2-utils libncurses-dev openjdk-11-jdk

Mais certains sont déjà installés, comme build-essential autoconf m4

$ asdf install erlang 28.3

Happy 2026!

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I think we should reduce out of tree installations to a minimum.

I think it is better and easier for them to follow the instructions for installing the pre built asdf binary. There is no need for go being installed.

And as far as I remember they want to install mise anyway.

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I am currently doing a lot of research on how to properly install mise and other necessary things for my laptop, I’m going through every single comment especially from my PostgreSQL help page and getting answers. I’m learning more about tool managers it’s why I’m selecting mise it’s just better. I thank you for your help.

Thank you for your help, I’m currently in the process of reformatting my laptop, I will still use this information and see it it can be a short term solution.