Nix cannot be install without `libcrypto.so.1.1` in the environment

[ShamrockLee]

During the installation of nix, it complains:

/nix/store/4vz8sh9ngx34ivi0bw5hlycxdhvy5hvz-nix-2.3.7/bin/nix-store: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

There are some other libcrypto.so in /usr/lib, but none of them end with .1.1

$ ls /usr/lib/libcrypto.so
libcrypto.so         libcrypto.so.1.0.2k
libcrypto.so.0.9.8e  libcrypto.so.6
libcrypto.so.10

Since I don't have the root privilige in that environment, is there some other way to install?

[zimbatm]

What Linux distribution should be used to reproduce the problem?

Normally Nix should come with its own version of libcrypto.

[ShamrockLee]

It's CentOS 7.8.2003.

[Mic92]

Do you have libcrypto in the find /nix/store | grep libcrypto? I don't see openssl directly in the rpath of nix-store:

patchelf --print-rpath $(which nix-store)
/nix/store/cc30c7sap0nlxgh18rwy78m9kwjdxdcr-nix-3.0pre20200829_f156513/lib:/nix/store/6p3zjf89q9p5yjr32dvjnfpr7rnvac83-libsodium-1.0.18/lib:/nix/store/hj11p6ayc6vllvxh5mwpxfkjwzmcz4rf-editline-1.17.0/lib:/nix/store/m38r4asgn7mjbrvzsn0nxaisdccvlgcw-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib:/nix/store/2gci5q5yz717xycp444wyjxki4mbwwav-zlib-1.2.11/lib:/nix/store/jvjchabdmcxlwjhbiii5sy6d2hcg6z7r-glibc-2.31/lib:/nix/store/mijx85pw9jn3bhzii3jl0kv5m2sjq7zq-gcc-9.3.0-lib/lib

It is a dependency of libnixmain.so on my system:

nix-shell -p pax-utils --run 'lddtree $(which nix-store)'
...
    libnixmain.so => /nix/store/cc30c7sap0nlxgh18rwy78m9kwjdxdcr-nix-3.0pre20200829_f156513/lib/libnixmain.so
        libcrypto.so.1.1 => /nix/store/zcrf6m8p9di31vrj6qqzskdg9gx2sn5n-openssl-1.1.1g/lib/libcrypto.so.1.
...

Anyway, I suggest you to open an issue in nix itself as well. This might be a packaging bug.

[ShamrockLee]

$ find .nix | grep libcrypto
.nix/store/0x3bf23q5lmdq77x5icr7c0ngvz25ms3-openssl-1.1.1g/lib/libcrypto.so

[ShamrockLee]

I have just started a virtual machine with the live image of CentOS (KDE), but cannot reproduce the issue. The installation went successful.

[ShamrockLee]

Yet another clue: issue #17 "invalid cross-device link" happen on the machine, so I wrote sandbox = false in .nix/etc/nix/nix.conf But I still cannot reproduce the issue on QEMU and CentOS live image with the above configuration.