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Seconded. Don’t use certbot; it’s an awful piece of user-hostile software, starting from snap being the only supported installation channel. Everything it does

by 9dev 7mo ago

Seconded. Don’t use certbot; it’s an awful piece of user-hostile software, starting from snap being the only supported installation channel. Everything it does wrong, acme.sh does right.

tryauuum 6mo ago
just installed yesterday the certbot on ubuntu 24.04, from the default repos, without any snaps
- mediumsmart 6mo ago
  same on debian trixie. certbot works fine for me. Zone records in bind, generate the dnskey, cronjob to re-sign it daily and your off to the races. no problems no snaps.
locknitpicker 6mo ago
> starting from snap being the only supported installation channel. This sounds like you are complaining about Ubuntu, not the software you wish to install in Ubuntu.
- jcgl 6mo ago
  Unfortunately, it's more than that: the Linux installation instructions on the certbot website[0] give options for pip or snap. Distro packages are not mentioned. [0] https://certbot.eff.org/ https://certbot.eff.org/
  - pgporada 6mo ago
    Make a PR or an issue on the project.
    - jcgl 6mo ago
      I feel no need to. I'm quite certain that the certbot folks are aware of the existence of distro packages and even know how to check https://pkgs.org/download/certbot https://pkgs.org/download/certbot for availability. One might guess that they only want to supply instructions for upstream-managed distribution channels rather than dealing with e.g. some ancient version being shipped on Debian.