How To Install awscli on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install awscli on Ubuntu.

What is `awscli`

awscli is:

This package provides a unified command line interface to many Amazon Web Services.

A partial listing of these services is:

AWS CloudFormation
AWS Data Pipeline
AWS Direct Connect
Amazon DynamoDB
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elemental MediaConvert
AWS Identity and Access Management
AWS Import/Export
AWS OpsWorks
AWS Security Token Service
AWS Storage Gateway
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon Elastic Container Registry
Amazon Elastic Container Service
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Relational Database Service
Amazon Route 53
Amazon Simple Email Service
Amazon Simple Notification Service
Amazon Simple Queue Service
Amazon Simple Storage Service
Amazon Simple Workflow Service
Auto Scaling
Elastic Load Balancing

There are three methods to install awscli on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install awscli Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install awscli using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install awscli

Install awscli Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install awscli using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install awscli

Install awscli Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install awscli using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install awscli

How To Uninstall awscli on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the awscli package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove awscli

Uninstall awscli And Its Dependencies

To uninstall awscli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove awscli

Remove awscli Configurations and Data

To remove awscli configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge awscli

Remove awscli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove awscli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge awscli

Dependencies

awscli have the following dependencies:

References

awscli website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install awscli package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.