How to Free SSL Certificates on Debian 6 Squeeze with Apache

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I'm looking for a way to use free SSL certificates in Apache running in Debian 6 squeeze.

I tried to use Lets-Encrypt

running

./certbot-auto --apache certonly --no-bootstrap

throws error

WARNING: couldn't find Python 2.7+ to check for updates.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 16, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/version.py", line 140, in __cmp__
    compare = cmp(self.version, other.version)
AttributeError: StrictVersion instance has no attribute 'version'

I tried to install python 2.7 in Sqeeze using 

apt-get install python-pip

but this throws error

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 openssl : Depends: libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.1e-2+deb7u5) but it is not installable
 python-pip : Depends: python-pkg-resources but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: python-setuptools (>= 0.6c1) but it is not going to be installed
 wkhtmltox : Depends: libssl1.0.0 but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

How to use free SSL certificates in sqeeze with Apache ?

Squeeze has also Mono last version installed from sources. Maybe some .NET or Mono ACME client can used.

Best Answer

Try acme.sh shell script instead (https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh). I haven't good experience with Certbot on such old distributions, but acme.sh worked quite good for me. Or upgrade your OS to newer version (how @Michael Hampton already said in his comment), but it could be hard sometimes or customers don't want to pay for :)

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