Certbot Broken, just tried to renew certificate

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My domain is: samuele.site

I ran this command: sudo certbot --apache

It produced this output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/certbot", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('certbot==1.21.0', 'console_scripts', 'certbot')())
  File "/usr/bin/certbot", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point
    for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 957, in distribution
    return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 548, in from_name
    raise PackageNotFoundError(name)
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for certbot

My web server is (include version): Ubuntu 20.04

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Apache2

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Time4VPS

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know):

I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): can't run the command, same error above.

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Hello everyone! I'll add this here, I have already tried the purge command and the pip uninstall (was not installed through pip). Reinstalling after purge didn't work

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Try:
Certbot Instructions | Certbot (eff.org)

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pip can uninstall any installed Python packages.

The errors you have, and the traceback lines above, suggest you did not follow the recommended instructions and installed or executed Certbot in a virtual environment, instead relying on a global system wide installation. That pattern is not recommended or supported. Was this possibly installed from a third-party Debian package repository?

You should completely remove Certbot's ubuntu packages and the python packages, then follow the Certbot instructions to either:

  1. Install via snapd (recommended)
  2. Install via pip into a virtual environment
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THANKS! This here worked, especially this command: sudo apt-get remove certbot

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