Update to ACME V2 on Ubuntu

[RRS94]

My domain is: whitewatertools.com

So the certificates to my websites stopped working as apparently I was living under a rock and missed the whole ACME v1 to v2 update. I have been trying unsuccesfully to update my installation to ACME v2 using certbot, I tried the 'certbot update_account' command but it seems it's not supported by my certbot installation, which I tried updating and it says it's on the latest version. Another thing I saw in some places was that I needed to change the server in the config files for my domains, but there's no server line in my config files. I do see the v1 account on the account folder but haven't been able to add the v2 account in there. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 16.10

My hosting provider is: Digital Ocean

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know): yes

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): 0.8.1

[griffin]

Welcome to the Let's Encrypt Community, Ricardo

Certbot - Ubuntuxenial Nginx

[rg305]

@RRS94

Certbot): 0.8.1

Wow!
Congrats for being such an early adopter.
But the time has definitely come to replace it.
Ubuntu should use apt...
Try:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install certbot
[which should update it to a newer version that is ACMEv2 capable]
[and while you are there, you might want to update nginx and the O/S too]

[griffin]

I think @RRS94 can use snap though, @rg305.

[rg305]

Yes, @griffin, certbot via snap is also an option; but not one as easy to implement (quickly).

[griffin]

Fair point.