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caiman
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Jul 25, 2019

SQL Server 2019 on Ubuntu 18.04

Hi everyone, I was able to install Developer preview of SQL Server 2019 on Ubuntu 18.04, and was using it smoothly for a week. Then, today I started receiving the following connection error while at...
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Tejas Shah
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Jul 30, 2019

The reason why you are having issues with this is because SQL Server 2017/2019 packages meant for Ubuntu 16.04 have a dependency on OpenSSL version 1.0. While Ubuntu 18.04 ships with OpenSSL version 1.1. Until we get a package meant for Ubuntu 18.04, you can follow the steps in following blog to and create links to libssl.so and libcrypto.so for version 1.0 into /opt/mssql/lib path. 

 

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SQL-Server/Installing-SQL-Server-2017-for-Linux-on-Ubuntu-18-04-LTS/ba-p/385983 

 

Once the appropriate links are created, the connectivity to SQL Server should work. 

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