"Please use pacman to install... certbot and certbot-apache" when running letsencrypt-auto

Hi all, following this guide I’m trying to set up Let’s Encrypt on my Namecheap shared hosting server. I’ve done this successfully before under Ubuntu but I’m having some trouble under my new Antergos (Arch) installation.

My domain is: firres.site

I ran this command: ./letsencrypt-auto certonly -a manual --rsa-key-size 4096 -d firres.site -d www.firres.site

It produced this output:

Please use pacman to install letsencrypt packages:
# pacman -S certbot certbot-apache

If you would like to use the virtualenv way, please run the script again with the --debug flag.

My web server is (include version): Unsure, not that it really matters in this case with it being a shared server.

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Unsure, not that it really matters in this case with it being a shared server. I’m running the command on my Antergos (Arch) machine.

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Namecheap.

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): No.

I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): Yes, CPanel 60.0.43.

Thanks everyone!

I know I only just posted this, but running the --debug flag does indeed fix the problem as far as I can tell.

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