No usable version of libssl was found on ubuntu 22.04

[dumprop]

When trying to run AltCover version '8.9.3' on ubuntu 22.04 I get the following error:
No usable version of libssl was found
I have both libssl3 and libssl-dev installed, but AltCover does not seem to recognize or work with them.

Logs:

$ dotnet tool install --global altcover.global
Tool 'altcover.global' was reinstalled with the stable version (version '8.9.3').

libssl-dev is already the newest version (3.0.2-0ubuntu1.18).

libssl3 is already the newest version (3.0.2-0ubuntu1.18).

$ altcover
No usable version of libssl was found
Aborted

[SteveGilham]

I confess myself baffled by this one.

The failure is happening sufficiently early that it looks like a dotnet runtime issue, before the tool itself actually starts running.

AltCover (and its dependencies) are pure dotnet, with no instances of P/Invoke (no references to the DllImport attribute in the IL for the dependencies), so any invocations of libssl, for whatever reason (hash functions, perhaps, or maybe for sourcelink validation?), will have to be through the dotnet runtime.

The tool itself targets NetCoreApp2.1 with roll-forwards, and the libraries are all netstandard2.0 or earlier as it's intended to be compatible with pretty much any supported environment, and many outdated ones as well. It's not looking for a particular version of the runtime and its dependencies, especially not "one that's more recent than whatever you have".