Error SSL backend error when using OpenSSL

Question

I was trying to install pycurl in a virtualenv using pip and I got this error

ImportError: pycurl: libcurl link-time ssl backend (openssl) is different from compile-time ssl backend (none/other)

I read some documentation saying that "To fix this, you need to tell setup.py what SSL backend is used" although I am not sure how to do this since I installed pycurl using pip.

How can I specify the SSL backend when installing pycurl with pip?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hii @kartik,

After reading their INSTALLATION file, I was able to solve my problem by setting an environment variable and did a reinstall

• remove existing pycurl installation

  pip uninstall pycurl

• export variable with your link-time ssl backend (which is openssl above)

  export PYCURL_SSL_LIBRARY=openssl

• then, re-install pycurl with no cache

  pip install pycurl --no-cache-dir

There could be other solutions out there but this works perfectly for me on a virtualenv and pip installation.

Hope this Helpfull!!