Unable to renew/install upgrade to certbot

[alento]

The OS is Debian Linux 7 (I am going to guess this is the problem?)
Can Certbot be ran without upgrading?

Upgrading certbot-auto 0.30.2 to 0.34.0…
Replacing certbot-auto…
Creating virtual environment…
Installing Python packages…
/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/bin/python: No module named pip.main; ‘pip’ is a package and cannot be directly executed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/tmp/tmp.7qPieqNG9h/pipstrap.py”, line 177, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/tmp/tmp.7qPieqNG9h/pipstrap.py”, line 149, in main
pip_version = StrictVersion(check_output([python, ‘-m’, ‘pip’, ‘–version’])
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 544, in check_output
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ‘[’/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/bin/python’, ‘-m’, ‘pip’, ‘–version’]’ returned non-zero exit status 1

[schoen]

Hi @alento,

You can run certbot-auto with the --no-self-upgrade option. We would recommend that you upgrade to a supported OS version as soon as possible.

[alento]

Hi @schoen Tried that but it still insists upon upgrading.

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/cH246v55WY/

[schoen]

My only thought is to try it without the sudo (maybe whether you explicitly sudo or allow Certbot to do so for you will affect where the virtual environment is placed).

[alento]

Thanks … I am just going for manual creating with https://gethttpsforfree.com.

In the meantime, hopefully the sys admin will upgrade. I won’t hold my breath though.

Thanks for your help as always!