Raspbian certbot-auto installation issues

Hi,

I'm trying to install certbot-auto (after kicking out an older version of certbot installed from the Raspbian repo) using the instructions provided here, but it fails with:

Certbot has problem setting up the virtual environment.

But I see no apparent reason for the failure. Any help would be appreciated.

Full console output below:

pi@raspberry:~ $sudo certbot-auto --apache  
Bootstrapping dependencies for Debian-based OSes... (you can skip this with --no-bootstrap)
Hit:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian stretch InRelease        
Hit:3 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_10.x stretch InRelease            
Hit:4 https://dev2day.de/pms stretch InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
augeas-lenses is already the newest version (1.8.0-1+deb9u1).
ca-certificates is already the newest version (20161130+nmu1+deb9u1).
gcc is already the newest version (4:6.3.0-4).
libaugeas0 is already the newest version (1.8.0-1+deb9u1).
libffi-dev is already the newest version (3.2.1-6).
libssl-dev is already the newest version (1.1.0j-1~deb9u1).
openssl is already the newest version (1.1.0j-1~deb9u1).
python is already the newest version (2.7.13-2).
python-dev is already the newest version (2.7.13-2).
python-virtualenv is already the newest version (15.1.0+ds-1).
virtualenv is already the newest version (15.1.0+ds-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Creating virtual environment...
Installing Python packages...
Had a problem while installing Python packages.

pip prints the following errors: 
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DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7.
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
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Requirement already satisfied: setuptools>=1.0 in /opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from josepy==1.1.0->-r /tmp/tmp.lhJjXNV3Jp/letsencrypt-auto-requirements.txt (line 95)) (40.6.3)
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 176, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/install.py", line 346, in run
    session=session, autobuilding=True
  File "/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/wheel.py", line 848, in build
    assert building_is_possible
AssertionError
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Certbot has problem setting up the virtual environment.

We were not be able to guess the right solution from your pip 
output.

Consult https://certbot.eff.org/docs/install.html#problems-with-python-virtual-environment
for possible solutions.
You may also find some support resources at https://certbot.eff.org/support/ .

There's a bug in the most recent version of pip. See this post for how you can edit certbot-auto to work around it, if you want to:

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It worked. Thank you.

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