<div dir="ltr"><div>The openssl package is more than just a metapackage; it also contains some docs, manpages, and a few small utilities. However, it's also 900kb compared with 7MB+ for libssl-dev, so that one's probably the way to go:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/openssl">https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/openssl</a></div><div><a href="https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libssl-dev">https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libssl-dev</a></div><div><br></div><div>Note that for normal packaging under Debian/Ubuntu, it's unnecessary to care which exact version you have— you can build-depend on libssl-dev, and then during the packaging step, the magic of dpkg-shlibdeps will examine the linker information on your installed binaries and figure out from there what the binary package's dependencies should be.</div><div><br></div><div>Since it sounds like you're doing some kind of custom pipe-to-sudo-bash type installer, unfortunately this doesn't apply, so depending on the openssl package probably makes the most sense.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:02 PM Brylie Christopher Oxley <<a href="mailto:brylie@amble.fi">brylie@amble.fi</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
I am contributing to an install script that relies on libssl. The script <br>
is currently hard-coding for libssl release numbers and adding <br>
conditional checks for each published version. I have suggested that we <br>
instead use the libssl-dev or openssl metapackage. The concern with <br>
libssl-dev is that there might be experimental releases under that alias.<br>
<br>
Is there a libssl alias or some other way to get only stable libssl <br>
releases?<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Brylie<br>
<br>
<br>
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