I need to find the path to the OpenSSL libraries (libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll) on my Linux system, and suspected they could be located where the OpenSSL.exe resides.
If I enter
openssl version
I get a response like "OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019". Great, so OpenSSL is installed.
If I enter
whereis openssl
I get "openssl: /usr/bin/openssl /usr/share/man/man1/openssl.1ssl.gz" and would suspect that this was the oppenssl installation directory.
Unfortunately, that directory does not exist, and so doesn't /usr/local/ssl, which is, so Internet sources say, another popular installation directory for OpenSSL. Nevertheless, OpenSSL works.
Not even a full recursive search of the file system from root reveals a hit on any of those OpenSSL files.
How do I find them? Why does whereis fail?