Cerbot Installation Error

[jbis9051]

I am trying to install certbot on my macOS Sierra mac. I have python3 installed and up to date.

$ brew install certbot
[...]
==> python3 -c import setuptools... --no-user-cfg install --prefix=/usr/local/Ce
Last 15 lines from /Users/serveradmin/Library/Logs/Homebrew/certbot/28.python3:
__file__ = 'setup.py'
exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read()
  .replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))
--no-user-cfg
install
--prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/certbot/1.3.0/libexec/vendor
--install-scripts=/usr/local/Cellar/certbot/1.3.0/libexec/vendor/bin
--single-version-externally-managed
--record=installed.txt

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
  File "setup.py", line 31, in <module>
    from setuptools import Feature
ImportError: cannot import name 'Feature' from 'setuptools' (/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py)

[_az]

I think you should try reporting this to https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues , where the maintainers of the Certbot formula will see it. (Perhaps read https://docs.brew.sh/Troubleshooting first).

Apparently it is related to a feature removal in setuptools: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2017 and the solution would be to pin the setuptools version. It seem that a similar change was made to linuxbrew in the context of the same issue, but nothing for macOS.

FWIW installation works for me in Catalina.

[jbis9051]

I tried the solution on that GitHub issue link. Got the same error. I can’t report to homebrew because they stopped supported Sierra. I will update to High Sierra and see if it works.

[jbis9051]

Updated to High Sierra and ran brew upgrade then brew install certbot and it worked. Thanks!