Certbot not found

Question

i installed letsencrypt on my ubuntu 16.04 machine with following command.

sudo apt-get install letsencrypt

Now, i want to define a cronjob to automatically renew my certs with following line.

certbot renew --pre-hook "service nginx stop" --post-hook "service nginx start"

But i always get the error, that the command certbot could not be found.

If i use letsencrypt instead of certbot everything works fine as long as i dont use the --pre-hook and --post-hook.

How to install certbotor is there an alternative command for letsencrypt to define such hooks?

Thanks

Solution 1

Ok i found the solution..

git clone [email protected]:certbot/certbot.git

cd certbot

./certbot-auto renew --pre-hook "service nginx stop" --post-hook "service nginx start"

Solution 2

For me the following commands working fine.

Install snap

sudo apt update

sudo apt install snapd

Install Core

sudo snap install core

Install Certbot

sudo snap install --classic certbot

sudo ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot

Renew Certbot

sudo certbot renew --dry-run

Solution 3

Follow the official instructions and install certbot with

sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx

or, in newer Ubuntus that have snap, with

sudo snap install --classic certbot

It will be available in $PATH after that.