aws-cli shows old version after upgrade

Question

I am using raspberry which is running raspbian jessie OS. I tried to install/upgrade the aws-cli using steps provided at https://aws.amazon.com/cli/ Even after upgrade was successful, I get below output

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ aws --version
aws-cli/1.11.126 Python/2.7.9 Linux/4.9.28-v7+ botocore/1.5.89

This was same before installation. Drawbacks: I am not able to see 'iot' as option when I run aws help. Majority of other services like ec2 & s3 are available

What can be the reason behind this behavior? How to solve this?

Answer 1

Like me, your old version of the AWS CLI would have been installed via PIP (python package installer).

If you do which aws you will see something like so ...Python/2.7/bin/aws

You then tried to upgrade using the official AWS package installer - e.g. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2-mac.html#cliv2-mac-install-cmd

This method installs the new version in a location like /usr/local/bin/aws

So you basically have 2 versions of the AWS CLI on your system. When you do aws --version you are seeing the old PIP based installation.

To fix it (as I did) - I just used PIP to upgrade existing CLI:

• pip install awscli --upgrade --user (i had to use --user or there was an error)
• now when I ran aws --version - I can see a newer version
• I then cleaned up my other AWS package installer using steps here - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2-mac.html#cliv2-mac-remove