MacOS – How to install OpenSSL in ElCaptain if the HomeBrew it’s broken

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After an upgrade from 10.10 to 10.11, my rails environment was broken.

I've removed the broken open-source projects/files and now I'm trying to install HomeBrew.

But I receive this message:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
curl: (77) SSL: can't load CA certificate file /System/Library/OpenSSL/certs/cert.pem

But to install OpenSSL, I need homebrew. So, I'm stuck.

How can I get around this issue?

Best Answer

You can curl without SSL by removing the ‘s’ from ‘https’:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL http://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Additionally, you could just point a web browser to the page, http://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install and save the code to /tmp/brew.rb as a text file and then run it

ruby -e /tmp/brew.rb

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Had the same problem. Try the following:

$ rvm remove 2.0.0 # get rid of unsuccessful installation
$ rvm get head --autolibs=3 # get the latest RVM and build required libs
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This command should show you where any openssl binaries may be located on your system:

locate openssl | grep bin/openssl

For homebrew, make sure you have /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin in your $PATH. You can check your current path setting by issuing echo $PATH.

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