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I am fine with using snaps on my desktop systems (mostly) but it is not very appealing to me on servers. It would be interesting to know if there are any big pr

• akersten 5y ago
  The certbot let's encrypt agent is unfortunately stuck in a Snap package, at least last I tried setting it up. Always feels like Snap has been pushed by some invisible proprietary influence, not organic growth due to it being a good idea. I never saw anything wrong with package managers or a reason I should like Snap. My experience is that I've only been forced to use it against my will.
  • greatgib 5y ago
    I was also very annoyed by that and supporting legacy servers with letsencrypt, and then I found acme.sh script to replace certbot: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh Simple and light without big dependencies as running in bash! I would recommend it a thousand times!
    • hedora 5y ago
      OpenBSD started packaging an ACME client: https://man.openbsd.org/acme-client.1 https://man.openbsd.org/acme-client.1 It's probably also a reasonable alternative.
  • _joel 5y ago
    microk8s perhaps, oh and they use it on AWS AMI's for awscli stuff (yuk)
  • throwawaymanbot 5y ago