I would like to install certbot without snap. On certbot website, it says "You can find instructions for installing Certbot without using snap by selecting your OS in the dropdown above. ". I chosed my OS, but the instruction is still for using snap.

I'm afraid this is the result of moving the documentation from distribution based to snap. The banner you're seeing at the top is a generic one from the situation before the aformentioned documentation restructuring. Earlier, there was only the "snap" choice of OS which would present the snap instru…

The arch wiki always seems to be better than anyone else's [image] Certbot - ArchWiki

I also do not understand at all why snap is forced upon us. I am anything but satisfied with this decision! It is really annoying.

I wasn't very involved in this decision (and not at all in its implementation), but I believe the main reason that the Certbot team decided to use snaps as the recommended distribution method for Certbot is that most Linux distributions weren't willing to update their packages frequently without som…

[image] schoen: t's been under very rapid development all along (…) I think this is indeed something that isn't very "compatible" with the regular way of distribution packaging. For Gentoo however, it's simply checking if dependencies have changed and if so, test for dependency hell or if ce…

Adding to the above, as someone who is also not a fan of snap: I actually like this usage as an integration. The various linux distributions are always very much behind in upgrading to the latest Cerbot versions. Their support is also varied across the install base. Ubuntu, for example, has 5 cur…

What’s the second best option to migrate away from certbot if I don’t want to use snap on my servers? Just got the EOL message from cron: Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore. Certbot will no longer receive updates.

acme.sh ? pure bash script, and first class client if you want to use DNS challenge by APIs

I use Debian, I installed snap, installed the latest certbot for the ECDSA certs and uninstalled snap. No more snap demon running in the background.

[image] berezovskyi: What’s the second best option to migrate away from certbot if I don’t want to use snap on my servers? My post at Certbot-auto no longer works on Debian based systems - #7 by bmw may help you.

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My post at Certbot-auto no longer works on Debian based systems - #7 by bmw may help you.

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