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Seconded. Don’t use certbot; it’s an awful piece of user-hostile software, starting from snap being the only supported installation channel. Everything it does wrong, acme.sh does right.

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just installed yesterday the certbot on ubuntu 24.04, from the default repos, without any snaps

same on debian trixie. certbot works fine for me. Zone records in bind, generate the dnskey, cronjob to re-sign it daily and your off to the races. no problems no snaps.

> starting from snap being the only supported installation channel.

This sounds like you are complaining about Ubuntu, not the software you wish to install in Ubuntu.

Unfortunately, it's more than that: the Linux installation instructions on the certbot website[0] give options for pip or snap. Distro packages are not mentioned.

[0] https://certbot.eff.org/

Make a PR or an issue on the project.

I feel no need to. I'm quite certain that the certbot folks are aware of the existence of distro packages and even know how to check https://pkgs.org/download/certbot for availability. One might guess that they only want to supply instructions for upstream-managed distribution channels rather than dealing with e.g. some ancient version being shipped on Debian.

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