Debian stretch raspberry pi. certbot-alternative

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My domain is:
pqr.neroth.org

I ran this command:
certbot-auto certificates

It produced this output:
Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore.
certbot-auto and its Certbot installation will no longer receive updates.
You will not receive any bug fixes including those fixing server compatibility
or security problems.
Please visit https://certbot.eff.org/ to check for other alternatives.
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

My web server is (include version):
Apache/2.4.25 (Raspbian)

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Rpi 3B Debian Stretch

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
self

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-auto --version
Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore.
certbot-auto and its Certbot installation will no longer receive updates.
You will not receive any bug fixes including those fixing server compatibility
or security problems.
Please visit https://certbot.eff.org/ to check for other alternatives.
certbot 1.9.0

Even with the error, certbot-auto certificates
continue to renew by certificates.

I am concerned at some point it would stop working. I looked at the website, but cannot figure I need to do to fix the error.

I need hand holding, at least what is the explicit command I need to do to get certbot working. PLEASE.

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certbot-auto is being depreciated.
Have you tried to visit https://certbot.eff.org/?

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Stevenzhu,

Thank you for the extra nudge! I had looked at it. It looked like for somebody trying to get it for the first time. Now on a force re-read, there are main changes. I can only make absolute minimum changes to my system, since it took a lot of work to install certboot-auto a few years ago. Now it looks like there is also a new pkg manager...

Is there a thread where this topic is being discussed? I like to know all the issues and potential consequences before I kill the working certbot-auto. One of the step is remove the current working pkgs.

Is it possible without removing the current working version, install the new one and fix up the paths so that the new pkg (or the old pkg to be used, until I get the new pkg working)? I am getting old and these things I used to do a few years ago is taking a lot more of mental energy now... close to 80! I dont have a backup system where I can do these experiments, minimizing risks.

BTW, I saw a python script somewhere with the name 'certbot' which importing the full library and running it. Is it possible I have a new version already installed?
What is the latest version of certbot?

Hopefully there is a thread(s) where these things are discussed? Thank you very much for your help!

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I couldn't answer some of your questions, here's what i know.

Yes. You can install new versions and keep the existing one. I also think if you install from the instruction, they will keep the same configuration path /etc/letsencrypt (because they are supposed to do so).

The latest certbot version is 1.14.0 on Github, released 12 days ago.

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