Raspberry Pi / Certbot failure

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My domain is: generalkenobi2.duckdns.org

I ran this command: sudo certbot --apache

It produced this output:
@MotionEyeOS:~ $ sudo certbot --apache
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/certbot", line 11, in
load_entry_point('certbot==0.31.0', 'console_scripts', 'certbot')()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 489, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2793, in load_entry_point
return ep.load()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2411, in load
return self.resolve()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2417, in resolve
module = import(self.module_name, fromlist=['name'], level=0)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/main.py", line 10, in
import josepy as jose
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/josepy/init.py", line 44, in
from josepy.interfaces import JSONDeSerializable
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/josepy/interfaces.py", line 8, in
from josepy import errors, util
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/josepy/util.py", line 4, in
import OpenSSL
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/OpenSSL/init.py", line 8, in
from OpenSSL import crypto, SSL
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/OpenSSL/crypto.py", line 1553, in
class X509StoreFlags(object):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/OpenSSL/crypto.py", line 1573, in X509StoreFlags
CB_ISSUER_CHECK = _lib.X509_V_FLAG_CB_ISSUER_CHECK
AttributeError: module 'lib' has no attribute 'X509_V_FLAG_CB_ISSUER_CHECK'

My web server is (include version):
apache2 -v
Server version: Apache/2.4.38 (Raspbian)
Server built: 2023-04-21T22:01:00

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="RaspbianForums - Raspbian"
BUG_REPORT_URL="RaspbianBugs - Raspbian"

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
N/A

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):
Can't even run that command, the above output occurs.

Hi @generalk25, and welcome to the LE community forum :slight_smile:

I'd say you have an old certbot and it should be updated.
See this page for proper installation details:
Certbot (eff.org)

In any case, I would uninstall certbot and reinstall it.

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That fixed the issue I had, then i had to remove nginx, it appears to have been binding port 80.

Thanks a lot.

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