Manual Install on Gentoo without certbot

Hi David,

I think it is rather risky to use a system that is so old unless Gentoo provides you with an upgrade path that will update other system libraries and servers. The reason is that a very large number of critical-severity bugs will have been discovered and publicized during that time window, which could allow many people to take over your server. If the server has remained connected to the Internet for that time with no software updates, it’s quite plausible that someone has already done so. I would recommend on general security grounds decomissioning this machine and/or reinstalling the operating system. Software updates are really important for maintaining system security, not just nice-to-have.

We do have a Certbot installation method that is a self-bootstrapping shell script

which might work on systems that don’t have a current OS-provided package. However, here also there might turn out to be some unmet library dependencies of some kind when installing on a system that hasn’t received software updates for seven years.