Could not find or load main class com.amazon.aes.webservices.client.cmd

Question

After I run the EC2 API tools, I run the command: ./ec2-cmd

However, I still get the error: Error: Could not find or load main class com.amazon.aes.webservices.client.cmd.

According to the guide: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonEC2/gsg/2006-06-26/running-an-instance.html

I'm suppose to run the ec2 commands, but none of the commands run due to the error above.

Any solutions?

Answer 1

You must have the environment variable $JAVA_HOME and java correctly configured. The Path environment variable also needs to include the EC2_HOME directory.

export EC2_HOME=/usr/local/ec2/ec2-api-tools-xxxversion
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin 

You can refer to the instructions here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/set-up-ec2-cli-linux.html as well.