Unable to install certbot under Debian 9

I’m running Debian 9. I want to install certbot. I used:

sudo apt-get install certbot -t stretch-backports

…as prescribed. But I got the following error:

E: The value ‘stretch-backports’ is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources

What did I do wrong???

Have you enabled stretch-backports in /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and run apt-get update?

https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

Thanks. They might’ve mentioned this in the instructions. For a noob like myself, the documentation is inadequate.

The paragraph immediately above the command you ran says:

First you'll have to follow the instructions here to enable the Stretch backports repo, if you have not already done so. Then run:

(assuming you were looking at https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/debianstretch-apache)

Phrases/words like “here” as a hyperlink are “frowned upon” as far as I can remember back from my more active HTML development period. For example, see: https://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHere

So perhaps the documentation could be clarified specifically for the backports repo link.

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