No package certbot available

Question

I'm trying to install certbot on RHEL server.

# yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

then

# subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"

epel-release-7-11 was installed.

# yum install certbot
Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
No package certbot available.
Error: Nothing to do

I even downloaded rpm manually from fedora project epel

removed and cleared all cache. But install package is not available.

What does `yum repolist` say? Can you install other packages from epel? — omajid, Nov 29 '18 at 18:33
epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise is present. yum install banner part of epel does install. — vbnr, Nov 29 '18 at 18:39

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 24 '19 at 18:07

For future reference, I could install executing the following lines:

sudo yum -y install yum-utils

sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

sudo yum-config-manager --enable rhui-REGION-rhel-server-extras rhui-REGION-rhel-server-optional

sudo yum install certbot

https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/centosrhel7-other

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '19 at 11:19

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It's success for me.

before install certbot, I execute the following lines:

 yum remove epel-release
 yum clean all

then execute the following lines:

sudo yum -y install yum-utils

sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

sudo yum-config-manager --enable rhui-REGION-rhel-server-extras rhui-REGION-rhel-server-optional

sudo yum install certbot

answered Jul 11 '19 at 11:19

魏思黔

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THANK YOU! I was wondering why yum install was so esoteric for this widely used product. – chiddidilikahrn Dec 31 '21 at 16:22

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered May 18 '21 at 14:49

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For me with same error just using this command simply solved the problem:

yum install epel-release

seems other sugesstions are a little excessive or unrelated.

answered May 18 '21 at 14:49

Mojtaba Rezaeian

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This works because certbot is not part of the default for RHEL or all derivative projects (CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, etc.) but it *is* included in the EPEL repository. EPEL, part of Fedora Linux, is arguably the most official (and ths generally most stable / tested) of the supplemental repositories for RHEL-derived distros, and the ability to install it with yum (or dnf) is included in RHEL. For this reason, I would preferentially install something from it, rather than any other repository. – cazort Sep 13 '21 at 20:51

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 04 '20 at 10:15

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Go to /etc/yum.repo.d/epel.repo and delete # before the "baseurl" and save it. after that:

yum install certbot

on this way my problem was solved

answered Sep 04 '20 at 10:15

Setareh Nazeri

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 25 '22 at 18:09

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In EC2 Amazon Linux do

$ sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel

then do

$ sudo yum install certbot

answered Nov 25 '22 at 18:09

dynamo

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Same problem after this on amazon linux 2. No package certbot available. – Lalle Jul 07 '23 at 12:23

No package certbot available

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