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- If you don't have the AWS CLI installed yet, that's great. Start by checking that you have Python 3.5+, then worry about the AWS CLI.
- AWS CLI installation help: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-install.html
- Python installation information: https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download (for non-beginners: follow links on the page as appropriate)
- If you already have the AWS CLI installed, you'll need to make sure that it is using Python 3.5+. If it isn't, then the awscli-login plugin won't work properly and installing it may break AWS CLI installs that are NOT using Python 3.5+.
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$ python --version Python 2.7.14 $ python3 --version -bash: python3: command not found $ aws --version aws-cli/1.15.83 Python/2.7.14 Linux/4.14.77-70.59.amzn1.x86_64 botocore/1.10.82 |
In the above example, Python 2.x is installed and the AWS CLI is installed, but using Python 2.x. That's exactly what we don't want. It is beyond the current scope of this article to describe how to install Python 3.5+, and the AWS CLI, ensuring that the CLI is using your Python 3.5+ installation. Please note that virtualenv may make it easier to get the AWS CLI installed and using Python 3.5+.
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