Certbot-dns-cloudflare installed but not working

Hi. I am getting an error with using the certbot-dns-cloudflare plugin. I have already installed it using the command: snap install certbot-dns-cloudflare and run the other commands in the Certbot instructions before doing that. Snap reports that the plugin is installed, and I can find the files in my snap folder, but Certbot can't seem to find it. Here is the rundown of my current situation:

My domain is: mcadmin.drewssite.top (not serving a site as of now)

I ran this command: sudo certbot certonly --dns-cloudflare -d drewssite.top

It produced this output:

Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log Could not choose appropriate plugin: The requested dns-cloudflare plugin does not appear to be installed

My web server is (include version): Apache2

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 20.04

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: self-hosted

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

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

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): Certbot 0.40.0

I also previously ran a command with credentials, but it said the credentials option was not recognized. I assume this is because it doesn't think the plugin is installed

Hi @foxler2010, and welcome to the LE community forum :slight_smile:

I don't think snap installs can be used by that outdated version.
Can you update the version to latest?

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You're probably running multiple installations of Certbot. Please uninstall all versions of Certbot installed using apt and continue with the snap version only.

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That fixed it! Thanks for the help!

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