Amazon Workspaces Client not working on 22.04
I have the official Amazon client, and I have been using it for years. When I upgraded to 22.04, the client began to crash on every launch. It seems to be an error with OpenSSL
$ ./workspacesclient
No usable version of libssl was found
[1] 23961 IOT instruction (core dumped) ./workspacesclientI did attempt to load an older libssl with
$ sudo aptitude install libssl-devBut that did not change the behavior in any way that I could see.
3 Answers
I've found a temporary workaround, although I can't say I love it. The workspaces client is using needs OpenSSL 1.x. Ubuntu 22.04 does not ship with this, nor is it readily available in the standard repos. I was able to manually install the package with
wget
sudo apt-get install ./libssl1.1_1.1.1l-1ubuntu1.3_amd64.debAt which point the client will detect the older library and run. Now I just need to remember to remove that package when they update so I don't have old security packages lying around.
Note: If you get a 404 error on the wget step, the library probably has had another version jump. Go to , search for libssl1.1_1.1.1l-1ubuntu, and grab the link for the most recent version. (As of 5/10/2022, it's 1.3.)
After the download, this works:
sudo dpkg -i ./libssl1.1_1.1.1l-1ubuntu1.3_amd64.debI'm not sure why.
As @feasoron wrote, the client uses an older version of the SSL lib. The impish repository has libssl1.1 that is needed by the workspacesclient. The upgrade saves the old apt configuration so you can mv /etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sources-impish.list. Then remove everything from it except the security repositories.
deb impish-security main restricted
deb impish-security universe
deb impish-security multiverseAfter this, the old SSL library will be available to install with
apt update
apt install libssl1.1
