When I install s3cmd package on my FreeBSD system and try to use the s3cmd command I get the following error:

_ERROR: Test failed: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (ssl.c:1091)

How do I fix this problem on FreeBSD Unix system?

Amazon Simple Storage Service (s3 ) is object storage through a web service interface or API. You can store all sorts of files. FreeBSD is free and open-source operating systems. s3cmd is a command-line utility for the Unix-like system to upload, download files to AWS S3 service from the command line.

ERROR: Test failed: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed error and solution

This error indicates that you don’t have packages correctly installed, especially SSL certificates. Let us see how to fix this problem and install s3cmd correctly on FreeBSD to get rid of the problem.

How to install s3cmd on FreeBSD

Search for s3cmd package:

$ pkg search s3cmd

Execute the following command and make sure you install Python 3.x package as Python 2 will be removed after 2020:

$ sudo pkg install py37-s3cmd-2.1.0

Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
The following 8 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	libffi: 3.2.1_3
	py37-dateutil: 2.8.1
	py37-magic: 5.38
	py37-s3cmd: 2.1.0
	py37-setuptools: 44.0.0
	py37-six: 1.14.0
	python37: 3.7.8
	readline: 8.0.4

Number of packages to be installed: 8

The process will require 118 MiB more space.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
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[rsnapshot] [1/8] Extracting readline-8.0.4: 100%
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[rsnapshot] [8/8] Extracting py37-s3cmd-2.1.0: 100%
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Message from python37-3.7.8:

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Note that some standard Python modules are provided as separate ports
as they require additional dependencies. They are available as:

py37-gdbm       databases/py-gdbm@py37
py37-sqlite3    databases/py-sqlite3@py37
py37-tkinter    x11-toolkits/py-tkinter@py37

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