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0 pointsdlbucci1y ago0 comments

Which is what I used for years, but recently discovered that Certbot now requires snapd to be installed. I did that and snapd bricked my server: it wouldn't start until I uninstalled it. That's when I switched to Caddy.

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Gormo1y ago

That's very definitely not true. Perhaps they're defaulting to Snap for convenience, but Certbot is a cross-platform Python program, and can just be installed via pip: https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=pip

Non-Ubuntu distros also often have standard packages in their repos with no reference to Snap, and EFF also distributes a Docker container with Certbot pre-configured, if Docker is your thing.

dlbucciOP1y ago

I wasn't aware of that. It was true for my version of Ubuntu (18), according to the website: https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=ubuntubioni...

Perhaps I had other options the website didn't make me aware of, but it seemed like enough of a hassle that I just dropped it.

Gormo1y ago

Ubuntu is the one forcing the use of Snaps, and it's one of the reasons lots of people are abandoning Ubuntu on both server and desktop. You're going to run into this semi-regularly with a variety of software if you continue to use Ubuntu.

FWIW, Certbot is available in the standard repos for almost all other major distros.

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Gormo1y ago

Non-Ubuntu distros also often have standard packages in their repos with no reference to Snap, and EFF also distributes a Docker container with Certbot pre-configured, if Docker is your thing.

dlbucciOP1y ago

I wasn't aware of that. It was true for my version of Ubuntu (18), according to the website: https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=ubuntubioni...

Perhaps I had other options the website didn't make me aware of, but it seemed like enough of a hassle that I just dropped it.

Gormo1y ago

FWIW, Certbot is available in the standard repos for almost all other major distros.

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