# What did work for me is the following:
wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.1o.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.1.1o
./config
make
# got some errors
make test
sudo make install
ln -s [ABSOLUTE_PATH]/libssl.so.1.1 /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.1
ln -s [ABSOLUTE_PATH]/libcrypto.so.1.1 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1
# TOBETESTED
### ln -s /usr/local/lib64/libssl.so.1.1 /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1
### ln -s /home/ubuntu/openssl-1.1.1o/libcrypto.so.1.1 /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1