AWS cli installation on Mac with anaconda python

Question

I am installing aws cli on Mac. Previously I installed anaconda to control my python versions. So I installed python using conda. Now I want to install aws cli.

By using pip: pip3 install awscli --upgrade --user

The installation was successful. However, when I run aws --version It told me that aws command was not found.

I again tried to add it to the command line path. But I could not find where it was installed.

When I run which python It gave me /anaconda/bin/python

People say this might not be the real folder and it is true I could not find aws cli under it either. I then run ls -al /anaconda/bin/python It gives lrwxr-xr-x 1 mac staff 9 Aug 15 20:14 /anaconda/bin/python -> python3.6

I dont understand the path at all. How could I find where my aws cli installed?

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue and eventually found the awscli command in ~/.local/bin. Just add /Users/<username>/.local/bin to your $PATH.

You can do this by editing ~/.bash_profile, which probably already has these lines in it:

# added by Anaconda3 4.4.0 installer
export PATH="/Users/<username>/anaconda/bin:$PATH"

You could make another copy of this line but replace the anaconda path with the new one, but I just updated the existing path since the two are related:

# added by Anaconda3 4.4.0 installer
export PATH="/Users/<username>/.local/bin:/Users/<username>/anaconda/bin:$PATH"

Answer 2

I solved the problem by using conda to install awscli.

conda install -c conda-forge awscli 

worked so far. It seems that pip install does not work for conda installed python... Is this conclusion true?