Running Client on Mac Fails - No such file or directory

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I am trying to install and run the client on my MacBook Air with El Capitan Version 10.11.1 Beta (15B38b). My intention is to use the client to generate a certificate, then move it to my webhosting service, which uses cPanel with its own SSL/TSL Manager.

I already had Git, so cloned letsencrypt and then tried to run:

./letsencrypt-auto --agree-dev-preview --server \ https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/directory auth

as instructed in the invitation email. The result was:

Updating letsencrypt and virtual environment dependencies…/letsencrypt-auto: line 88: /Users/John/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/pip: No such file or directory

And indeed there is no such file or directory. Would appreciate any help to get through this brick wall.

Thanks and regards

John

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didnt the LE client only run on linux?

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Not sure. Installation proceeded and installed a number of packages, appeared to conclude normally. Trying to run failed. However, during install, there was a message that said Mac support is very iffy… So maybe I need to wait until 16 November.

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I got the same /home/user2/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/pip: No such file or directory" error when attempting to install and run letsencrypt under a second user on the same machine. So I did the following which seemed to resolve it:

rm -rf /home/user1/.local
cd /home/user2/letsencrypt/bootstrap
./venv.sh

I did get a "Could not open requirements file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'py26reqs.txt" error at the end but I think you can safely ignore that.

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FYI OS X is not yet officially supported: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues/1975.

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You might need to download and install quite a few libraries manually on OS X to make LE run smoothly. It seems to me that Python isn’t installed.

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This is correct, needs many libraries to work, I would suggest installing with brew or pypi to solve the dependencies. I have it working on El Capitan just fine, so it is possible.

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Same experience and setup here @StopSpazzing. And I agree, it’s definitely possible. Even for unexperienced users with minimal knowledge of Terminal and all the commands, like me (I remember MS DOS though - helpful). When you encounter errors, dig deeper and you will find solutions. I also met very experienced folks at the #letsencrypt IRC support chat.