In this article we will look how we can install and update AWS CLI on Ubuntu distribution.
Prerequisites
Create an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS instance.
$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS \n \l
Install some prerequisite packages. These packages are included by default in most major distributions of Linux.
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install unzip glibc-source groff less
Installing the CLI
Download the latest AWS CLI zip file.
$ curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
Extract the downloaded zip file.
$ unzip awscliv2.zip
Run the install program using elevated privileges.
$ sudo ./aws/install --bin-dir /usr/local/bin --install-dir /usr/local/aws-cli
Verify the version of CLI.
$ aws --version
aws-cli/2.13.32 Python/3.11.6 Linux/6.2.0-1012-aws exe/x86_64.ubuntu.22 prompt/off
Updating the CLI
Download the latest AWS CLI zip file. Here we are using the same zip file downloaded earlier.
$ curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
Extract the downloaded zip file with -u flag. This will automatically update existing files and create new ones as needed.
$ unzip -u awscliv2.zip
Run the install program using elevated privileges with --update flag.
$ sudo ./aws/install --bin-dir /usr/local/bin --install-dir /usr/local/aws-cli --update
Verify the version of CLI.
$ sudo ./aws/install --bin-dir /usr/local/bin --install-dir /usr/local/aws-cli --update
Found same AWS CLI version: /usr/local/aws-cli/v2/2.13.32. Skipping install.
Reference
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html
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