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+#!/bin/bash -x
+XDG_DATA_HOME=${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}
+VENV_NAME="venv"
+# The path to the letsencrypt-auto script.  Everything that uses these might
+# at some point be inlined...
+LEA_PATH=./letsencrypt/
+VENV_PATH=${LEA_PATH/$VENV_NAME}
+VENV_BIN=${VENV_PATH}/bin
+BOOTSTRAP=${LEA_PATH}/bootstrap
+
+SUDO=sudo
+
+ExperimentalBootstrap() {
+  # Arguments: Platform name, boostrap script name, SUDO command (iff needed)
+    if [ "$2" != "" ]  ; then
+      echo "Bootstrapping dependencies for $1..."
+      if [ "$3" != "" ] ; then
+        "$3" "$BOOTSTRAP/$2"
+      else
+        "$BOOTSTRAP/$2"
+      fi
+    fi
+}
+
+# virtualenv call is not idempotent: it overwrites pip upgraded in
+# later steps, causing "ImportError: cannot import name unpack_url"
+if [ ! -f $BOOTSTRAP/debian.sh ] ; then
+  echo "Cannot find the letsencrypt bootstrap scripts in $BOOTSTRAP"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ -f /etc/debian_version ] ; then
+  echo "Bootstrapping dependencies for Debian-based OSes..."
+  $SUDO $BOOTSTRAP/_deb_common.sh
+elif [ -f /etc/redhat-release ] ; then
+  echo "Bootstrapping dependencies for RedHat-based OSes..."
+  $SUDO $BOOTSTRAP/_rpm_common.sh
+elif `grep -q openSUSE /etc/os-release` ; then
+  echo "Bootstrapping dependencies for openSUSE-based OSes..."
+  $SUDO $BOOTSTRAP/_suse_common.sh
+elif [ -f /etc/arch-release ] ; then
+  if [ "$DEBUG" = 1 ] ; then
+    echo "Bootstrapping dependencies for Archlinux..."
+    $SUDO $BOOTSTRAP/archlinux.sh
+  else
+    echo "Please use pacman to install letsencrypt packages:"
+    echo "# pacman -S letsencrypt letsencrypt-apache"
+    echo
+    echo "If you would like to use the virtualenv way, please run the script again with the"
+    echo "--debug flag."
+    exit 1
+  fi
+elif [ -f /etc/manjaro-release ] ; then
+  ExperimentalBootstrap "Manjaro Linux" manjaro.sh "$SUDO"
+elif [ -f /etc/gentoo-release ] ; then
+  ExperimentalBootstrap "Gentoo" _gentoo_common.sh "$SUDO"
+elif uname | grep -iq FreeBSD ; then
+  ExperimentalBootstrap "FreeBSD" freebsd.sh "$SUDO"
+elif uname | grep -iq Darwin ; then
+  ExperimentalBootstrap "Mac OS X" mac.sh # homebrew doesn't normally run as root
+elif grep -iq "Amazon Linux" /etc/issue ; then
+  ExperimentalBootstrap "Amazon Linux" _rpm_common.sh "$SUDO"
+else
+  echo "Sorry, I don't know how to bootstrap Let's Encrypt on your operating system!"
+  echo
+  echo "You will need to bootstrap, configure virtualenv, and run a pip install manually"
+  echo "Please see https://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/contributing.html#prerequisites"
+  echo "for more info"
+fi
+echo "Bootstrapped!"
+
+cd letsencrypt
+./bootstrap/dev/venv.sh
+PYVER=`python --version 2>&1 | cut -d" " -f 2 | cut -d. -f1,2 | sed 's/\.//'`
+
+if [ $PYVER -eq 26 ] ; then
+    venv/bin/tox -e py26
+else
+    venv/bin/tox -e py27
+fi