Sorry if I’m in the wrong place --I used cert-bot (appears to be exactly lets-encrypt under different name?) and I have what I think is the same problem described here. I downloaded the certbot program tonight from EFF using wget, could it be part of an old build or something?
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dialog is already the newest version.
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Complete output from command /home/ubuntu/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file=’/tmp/pip-build-Twkict/cryptography/setup.py’;exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, ‘open’, open)(file).read().replace(’
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running install
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running build_py
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copying src/cryptography/about.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography
copying src/cryptography/fernet.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography
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copying src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/constant_time.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/primitives
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/cmac.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/primitives
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copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/multibackend.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends
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copying src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/ciphers/algorithms.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/ciphers
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/ciphers/init.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/ciphers
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/ciphers/modes.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/ciphers
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copying src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/kdf/pbkdf2.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/kdf
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copying src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/utils.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/dsa.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric
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copying src/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/dh.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric
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copying src/cryptography/hazmat/bindings/openssl/_conditional.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/bindings/openssl
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/bindings/openssl/binding.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/bindings/openssl
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copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/rsa.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/ciphers.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/hashes.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/utils.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/dsa.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/init.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/ec.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/backend.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/x509.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/cmac.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/commoncrypto
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/commoncrypto/hmac.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/commoncrypto
copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/commoncrypto/ciphers.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/commoncrypto
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copying src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/commoncrypto/init.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/cryptography/hazmat/backends/commoncrypto
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running egg_info
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error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
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Command “/home/ubuntu/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/python2.7 -u -c “import setuptools, tokenize;file=’/tmp/pip-build-Twkict/cryptography/setup.py’;exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, ‘open’, open)(file).read().replace(’
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’), file, ‘exec’))” install --record /tmp/pip-770Hvl-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/ubuntu/.local/share/letsencrypt/include/site/python2.7/cryptography” failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-Twkict/cryptography
/home/ubuntu/.local/share/letsencrypt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl.py:120: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
InsecurePlatformWarning
You are using pip version 8.0.3, however version 8.1.2 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the ‘pip install --upgrade pip’ command.