awscli getting started error

Question

I'd already asked this on the AWS official forum on Jan-2 but not any reply. So, I m posting it here again so that I can get the error fixed.

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I installed awscli as stated in this page http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html

And the following is the installation details:

millisami at millisami in ~/Code/face_tester on design ✹ ± which python                                                                             /usr/local/bin/python millisami at millisami in ~/Code/face_tester on design ✹ ± python --version                                                                         Python 2.7.3 millisami at millisami in ~/Code/face_tester on design ✹ ± pip install awscli --upgrade                                                             Requirement already up-to-date: awscli in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages Requirement already up-to-date: botocore>=0.4.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore-0.4.1-py2.7.egg (from awscli) Requirement already up-to-date: six>=1.1.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/six-1.2.0-py2.7.egg (from awscli) Requirement already up-to-date: argparse>=1.1 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/argparse-1.2.1-py2.7.egg (from awscli) Requirement already up-to-date: requests>=0.12.1,<1.0.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-0.14.2-py2.7.egg (from botocore>=0.4.0->awscli) Requirement already up-to-date: python-dateutil>=2.1 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_dateutil-2.1-py2.7.egg (from botocore>=0.4.0->awscli) Cleaning up... millisami at millisami in ~/Code/face_tester on design ✹ ± aws help                                                                                                                       Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/local/share/python/aws", line 15, in <module>     import awscli.clidriver   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awscli/__init__.py", line 18, in <module>     import botocore.base ImportError: No module named botocore.base millisami at millisami in ~/Code/face_tester on design1 ↵ ✹ 

Since installing the pip its successful, but why that botocore is being reported no such file??

Answer 1

Try this command

sudo pip install awscli --force-reinstall --upgrade 

Answer 2

I've been having the same problem with similar boto dependencies. I basically ran sudo apt-get install awscli on an AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance and it was totally broken out of the box.

After scratching around for hours, the following seems to have done t'trick:

sudo pip install boto --upgrade sudo pip install boto3 --upgrade sudo pip install iso8601 sudo pip install sqlalchemy 

Typing aws on the command line after running these commands produced the expected "Usage: ..." message as opposed to a Python stacktrace.

I hope this is helpful to someone else too!