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I tried using the official encrypt client on my low spec VPS this weekend (cent os 6). It wouldn't install as when compiling it runs out of memory. Why so heavyweight. Luckily I found a python script which uses the acme tools stuff and that worked fine. Maybe providing binaries would be another option so I don't have to compile everything myself.

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What were you compiling? The official client is written in Python.

The letscrypt auto thing.

Yeah, their documentation isn't very clear that auto actually compiles a bunch of stuff on the fly for you. I ran into the same issue as you with my low-spec VPS as well. You can either add some swap space, or run just "letsencrypt -certonly" and skip the auto junk, but it sounds like you did that with the acme client already. :) I've got an open issue on their github page to try and clarify the memory requirements for low-spec VPS..

Third party libraries used by the client require C extensions.

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