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alternative to apt-get and yum?

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http://serverfault.com – I am using a custom version of Linux (running on a very small computer). Some commands are not recognized such as apt-get, yum, ... So how do I install e.g. the following library: apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev Thank you (HowTos)

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Submitted by taskli on 11/30/2012

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I want to install curl library in ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For that i use the following command sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev. but i got the errors as

ajay@ajay-K54L:~$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev [sudo] password for ajay: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

I have a confusion to choose the best way for upgrading the OpenSSL on my Linux machine.

1*Through the yum Update.*

# yum update

I know this will update the entire packages. But If I want to specifically update OpenSSL

Can I use # yum update OpenSSL

2.

I installed an recompiled both Apache and PHP5, but it seems I am doing something wrong and unable to omit the old openssl. How can I configure and recompile to use only the new one?

From my phpinfo():

Apache/2.4.2 (Unix) OpenSSL/0.9.8o

OpenSSL support enabled OpenSSL Library Version OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010 OpenSSL Header Version OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012

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I have added this line to the [req_attributes] section of my openssl.cnf:

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I've recently set up the title instance (64bit) on AWS. I have that being said, I've installed httpd and php, both of which are running.

The series of installs executed are as follows:

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What am I missing with regards to the PHP install?

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I am trying to install the StGeorge payment gateway api on my CewntOS VPS. But when I tried running

php test.php

I get error: error while opening file libwebpayclient.so

So I tried: ldd libwebpayclient.so

Which showed that libssl.so.6 and libcrypto.so.6 are not found.