acme-tiny command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix acme-tiny command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

acme-tiny: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: acme-tiny: command not found

Solutions to acme-tiny: command not found

How To Fix acme-tiny: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu acme-tiny is provided by acme-tiny package.

acme-tiny is:

acme-tiny is a tiny script to issue and renew TLS certs from Let’s Encrypt

This is a tiny, auditable script that you can throw on your server to issue and renew Let’s Encrypt certificates. Since it has to be run on your server and have access to your private Let’s Encrypt account key, the script is kept as tiny as possible (currently less than 200 lines). The only prerequisites are Python and openssl.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install acme-tiny

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install acme-tiny.

sudo apt -y install acme-tiny

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install acme-tiny

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix acme-tiny command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.