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I can see my libssl is installed here: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so

However I am still getting this error after running ./configure; make

My system is Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS. How can I modify the setup.py file to make it work? Thanks.

Error:
Python build finished successfully!
The necessary bits to build these optional modules were not found:
_ssl                  _uuid                                    
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.


The following modules found by detect_modules() in setup.py, have been
built by the Makefile instead, as configured by the Setup files:
_abc                  atexit                pwd                
time                                                           


Could not build the ssl module!
Python requires an OpenSSL 1.0.2 or 1.1 compatible libssl with X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host().
LibreSSL 2.6.4 and earlier do not provide the necessary APIs, https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/issues/381

Never mind. sudo apt update solves my problem.