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How to install certbot DNS plugin for DNS Made Easy?

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and I want to get a wildcard certificate and my DNS provider is in the list - https://certbot.eff.org/docs/using.html#dns-plugins
But when I try to do step 5. Install correct DNS plugin

sudo apt-get install python3-certbot-dns-dnsmadeeasy

I always get

Unable to locate package python3-certbot-dns-dnsmadeeasy

though I can see it on the certbot github page I can't get how to install this plugin to use with certbot.

Solution

  • It's not a direct answer to how to install the certbot dnsmadeeasy plugin but it worked for me so I went with this solution.
    I used their Docker image - https://hub.docker.com/r/certbot/dns-dnsmadeeasy
    It works the same as certbot with the dnsmadeeasy plugin installed so you can obtain a certificate by running:

    docker run --rm -it --name certbot-dnsmadeeasy \
  -v {path_to_your_dnsmadeeasy.ini}:/dnsmadeeasy.ini \
  -v {path_to_where_you_want_to_store_certs}:/etc/letsencrypt \
  certbot/dns-dnsmadeeasy certonly \
  --dns-dnsmadeeasy \
  --dns-dnsmadeeasy-credentials /dnsmadeeasy.ini \
  -d {yourdomain}

    You don't even need to have certbot installed on your machine.