Sunday, April 20, 2014

Upgrading OpenSSL on Ubuntu 12.04

I needed to upgrade my Ubuntu box to patch the Heart Bleed bug in OpenSSL. Here's what I did:

```
apt-get remove openssl
cd /tmp
sudo wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1g.tar.gz
tar -zxvf openssl-1.0.1g.tar.gz
cd /tmp/openssl-1.0.1g
make install
sudo mandb
vi /etc/environment
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/ssl/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
logout
log back in again
```