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What does certbot have to do with snaps..? You have all the options of container, build from source, download a binary release, get it from apt (or what have you) repos.

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certbot does not officially support binary packages on Linux, so you have three choices for supported releases: snap, docker, or pip (best effort). If I’m not already using docker for the site (spoiler: I’m not) then why the fuck would I install docker if I’m not willing to install snap?

It’s python so scratch “binary” above and replace with “pip” obviously.

https://packages.debian.org/buster/certbot

You seem confused.

I guess the installation via pip is only best effort in the sense that they can't support every platform that pip is able to run on. For example their dependency on the "cryptography" library might cause problems on platforms which can't get a pre-compiled version from PyPi and have to built it from source.

If you are on x86 and use a distribution with glibc I wouldn't expect any problems.

I've had no issues installing it from debian apt repos on arm64 and amd64... I mean, if you don't want to use certbot and prefer something else, fine, but I can't see how docker/pip/snaps are the only options.

They're even listed as alternative methods here: https://certbot.eff.org/docs/install.html

I wish at least one of the other people downvoting my comment would pipe in to what their issue is, or what I could be missing.

And yes, I've encountered the cryptography-switched-to-rust-thing in various other scenarios.

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