Getting a version of certbot that works on debian stretch

momurda

This is probably a very temporary issue. But it exists today.
debian stretch main repos only have certbot .10 available.
To make a site use https today you need to be using .21+ since theyve updated how they do ACME challenge. New way isnt supported in .10.

So to change your existing debian version of python-certbot-apache
sudo apt remove python-certbot-apache
sudo apt autoremove This removes the unused packages that python-certbot-apache used.

nano /etc/apt/sources.list
add

# debian stretch-backports
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main

Save and exit
run
sudo apt install python-certbot-apache -t stretch-backports
You will get the newer version .23 that works with new challenge system. I probably could have just used apt-get upgrade after adding the backports repo without removing the old packages.

dbeato

@momurda said in Getting a version of certbot that works on debian stretch:

This is probably a very temporary issue. But it exists today.
debian stretch main repos only have certbot .10 available.
To make a site use https today you need to be using .21+ since theyve updated how they do ACME challenge. New way isnt supported in .10.

So to change your existing debian version of python-certbot-apache
sudo apt remove python-certbot-apache
sudo apt autoremove This removes the unused packages that python-certbot-apache used.

nano /etc/apt/sources.list
add
# debian stretch-backports
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main
Save and exit
run
sudo apt install python-certbot-apache -t stretch-backports
You will get the newer version .23 that works with new challenge system. I probably could have just used apt-get upgrade after adding the backports repo without removing the old packages.

which version of Debian?

black3dynamite

@dbeato said in Getting a version of certbot that works on debian stretch:

@momurda said in Getting a version of certbot that works on debian stretch:
This is probably a very temporary issue. But it exists today.
debian stretch main repos only have certbot .10 available.
To make a site use https today you need to be using .21+ since theyve updated how they do ACME challenge. New way isnt supported in .10.

So to change your existing debian version of python-certbot-apache
sudo apt remove python-certbot-apache
sudo apt autoremove This removes the unused packages that python-certbot-apache used.

nano /etc/apt/sources.list
add
# debian stretch-backports
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main
Save and exit
run
sudo apt install python-certbot-apache -t stretch-backports
You will get the newer version .23 that works with new challenge system. I probably could have just used apt-get upgrade after adding the backports repo without removing the old packages.
which version of Debian?

Must Debian 8 since Debian 9 is stretch.

momurda

9., the main repo still at .10

dbeato

@momurda said in Getting a version of certbot that works on debian stretch:

9., the main repo still at .10

Got it, I didn’t see the title too I see it says Stretch, I should have known.