Certbot install on Debian-Jessie failing due to Python Dependencies

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I followed the installation guideline but got stuck here. Any idea?

sudo apt-get install certbot -t jessie-backports

certbot --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/certbot”, line 6, in
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3019, in
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3003, in _call_aside
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3032, in _initialize_master_working_set
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 655, in _build_master
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 963, in require
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 849, in resolve
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The ‘certbot==0.10.2’ distribution was not found and is required by the application

I also tried the certbot-auto script from the EFF which returns

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libssl-dev : Depends: libssl1.0.0 (= 1.0.1t-1+deb8u6) but 1.0.2k-1~bpo8+1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

Thank you for any guideline here!
Dirk

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hi @D1rk

I would suggest going down the python route

pip install cryptography

pip install certbot

Note: you may need to install some dependencies for the cryptography package.

Also review: Installing Certbot on Debian 8 - OS Package Manager Not Installing Certbot

Andrei

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Thanks for you help, Andrei!

Unfortunately it returns the exact same error:

sudo pip install cryptography
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/pip”, line 5, in
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3019, in
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3003, in _call_aside
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3032, in _initialize_master_working_set
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 655, in _build_master
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 963, in require
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 849, in resolve
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The ‘pip==1.5.6’ distribution was not found and is required by the application

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interesting

this does narrow it down to a python issue

can you please do the following

python --version
pip freeze

should look like something below

Andrei

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python --version
Python 2.7.9

pip freeze
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/pip”, line 5, in
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3019, in
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3003, in _call_aside
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3032, in _initialize_master_working_set
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 655, in _build_master
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 963, in require
File “build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 849, in resolve
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The ‘pip==1.5.6’ distribution was not found and is required by the application

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hi @D1rk

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/

Should get PIP running and then you should be able to use the pip install certbot command

Andrei

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Thanks, Andrei!

Solved! After fixing PIP the “pip install certbot” installed it right away.

Solution:

sudo apt-get autoremove libssl1.0.0
sudo apt-get install libssl1.0.2k-1~bpo8+1
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install certbot

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thanks for posting the solution

I forgot about apt-get method for pip :smiley:

Andrei

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