pythonpython-3.xcentos8

libssl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have provisioned a vanila centos and then executed the following commands:

conda create --name an-env python=3.9
conda activate an-env

conda install -c conda-forge sentence-transformers

I am trying to import a hugging face library:

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
import os

In a centos 8 machine I get the following error:

libssl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I installed it using the following command:

conda install -c conda-forge sentence-transformers

Already tried the following:

yum install openssl.x86_64
yum install pyOpenSSL.x86_64

I also tried:

sudo ldconfig

and still get the following error:

libssl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can anyone please help me how to resolve this error?

Solution

  • I got the idea from @CharlesDuffy as he mentioned You need to have the same version of OpenSSL installed that your software was compiled against

    I uninstalled the library using conda uninstall sentence-transformers. And then installed with pip install -U sentence-transformers.

    This solves the issue.