Dear Devatha. No, you don't need openssl-devel until you write software yourself. On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 1:42 PM Devatha Naga Puneeth <dnpuneeth3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We are using openssl binary to deal with certificates in our rpm. > Is it required to have an openssl-devel package if we are dealing only with the openssl binary ? > > As per my understanding, > The openssl-devel package provides the header files and libraries needed for developing applications that use the OpenSSL library. It is not required for running the openssl command-line tool, unless you are building your own version of the openssl binary from source code. > > -- SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
