Certbot with Python 2.7.1.2 on Ububtu - Broken Packages

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I am now using ubuntu 16.04 and python --version tells me I’m using 2.7.12.
When I try to do sudo apt-get install letsencrypt I now get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
letsencrypt : Depends: python-letsencrypt (= 0.4.1-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7~)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

When I try sudo apt-get install python-pip I get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-pip : Depends: python:any (< 2.8)
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
Recommends: python-all-dev (>= 2.6) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python-setuptools but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python-wheel but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

sudo apt-get install python-dev also gives the error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-dev : Depends: python (= 2.7.11-1) but 2.7.12-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Any help would be much appreciated

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It seems like you don’t have the right dependecies installed. Mainly python. If you install those then run ./certbot-auto it should work.

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yes this is what I’m trying but it’s proving to be much more problematic than I expected

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hi @Nodeocrat

this is how i would work through this

A) run apt-get update (this gets the latest versions of packages)
B) run python - see what version you are using
C) run apt-get install --only-upgrade python (this should update python to the latest versioN)
D) run apt-get install pyhon-pip (pip is a package manager for python)
E) run the following command sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev (this provides some needed packages for the cryprtography module)
F) Run pip install certbot

Once it’s all complete you should have certbot running

these are the errors i worked through on an install on ubuntu 14.04

I preffer to use the PIP manager to do the certbot installs (there is also a script and the apt-get method)

It is highly likely that you may run in to other dependency issues please post the screenshots and we will work through them :smiley:

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Hey, thanks for the reply :slight_smile:
I am now using ubuntu 16.04 and python --version tells me I’m using 2.7.12… I have updated the OP accordingly.
When I try to do sudo apt-get install letsencrypt I now get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
letsencrypt : Depends: python-letsencrypt (= 0.4.1-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7~)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
When I try sudo apt-get install python-pip I get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-pip : Depends: python:any (< 2.8)
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
Recommends: python-all-dev (>= 2.6) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python-setuptools but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python-wheel but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

sudo apt-get install python-dev also gives the error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-dev : Depends: python (= 2.7.11-1) but 2.7.12-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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removing python altogether and instead installing just python-dev fixed it

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good :smiley:

also try installing certbot rather than letsecnrypt as i believe certbot is the current client

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