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This is a problem in pip. You can fix this for now by adding the --no-download flag to the calls to virtualenv on lines 1001 and 1003:

diff --git a/certbot-auto b/certbot-auto
index be2c367..2c0f64a 100755
--- a/certbot-auto
+++ b/certbot-auto
@@ -998,9 +998,9 @@ if [ "$1" = "--le-auto-phase2" ]; then
     rm -rf "$VENV_PATH"
     if [ "$PYVER" -le 27 ]; then
       if [ "$VERBOSE" = 1 ]; then
-        virtualenv --no-site-packages --python "$LE_PYTHON" "$VENV_PATH"
+        virtualenv --no-site-packages --no-download --python "$LE_PYTHON" "$VENV_PATH"
       else
-        virtualenv --no-site-packages --python "$LE_PYTHON" "$VENV_PATH" > /dev/null
+        virtualenv --no-site-packages --no-download --python "$LE_PYTHON" "$VENV_PATH" > /dev/null
       fi
     else
       if [ "$VERBOSE" = 1 ]; then
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