Phantomjs won't install: Autoconfiguration Error

Question

When trying to install Phantomjs on Ubuntu 22.04, I get the following error: There are some Q.& A's here from 2015-2022, I tried all of the included suggestions.

https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/10904

https://gist.github.com/julionc/7476620

wkhtmltopdf - libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file

http://ubuntuhowtoo.blogspot.com/2019/05/linux-nodejs-phantomjs-error-loading.html

Auto configuration failed
139998593603520:error:25066067:DSO support routines:DLFCN_LOAD:could not load the shared library:dso_dlfcn.c:185:filename(libproviders.so): libproviders.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
139998593603520:error:25070067:DSO support routines:DSO_load:could not load the shared library:dso_lib.c:244:
139998593603520:error:0E07506E:configuration file routines:MODULE_LOAD_DSO:error loading dso:conf_mod.c:285:module=providers, path=providers
139998593603520:error:0E076071:configuration file routines:MODULE_RUN:unknown module name:conf_mod.c:222:module=providers```

Answer 1

I had the same issue and fixed it by setting export OPENSSL_CONF=/dev/null prior to phantomJS usage. If it's not possible for you to disable openssl then you would have to pack you application with older OpenSSL version.

Explanation: Ubuntu 22.04 uses the new OpenSSL version 3.0.2 instead of the older OpenSSL version 1.1.1 . These OpenSSL versions are not fully compatible, so this is why you see this error when PhantomJS tries to auto configure the SSL/TLS settings.