Using LetsEncrypt Certbot on openSuSE 15.0

February 2019

Certbot is unable to renew (certbot renew) installed LetsEncrypt certificates.

Creating and installing certificates worked fine.

openSuSE version: 15.0
certbot version: 0.30.2

Error Message:

certbot certificates
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
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No certs found.
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or:
certbot renew
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
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No renewals were attempted.
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a) Use –config-dir /etc/certbot option every time when running Certbot
b) Creating /etc/letsencrypt directory as expected by Certbot:

sudo mv /etc/letsencrypt /etc/letsencrypt.empty
sudo mv /etc/certbot /etc/letsencrypt
sudo ln -s /etc/letsencrypt /etc/certbot


• OpenSUSE Leap 15 and Certbot upgrade / install
• Upgrading Certbot Version from 0.24 to 0.30.2 and failing