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AWS CLI Installation - Ubuntu & Windows

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In this article we will look how we can install AWS CLI on Ubuntu using Homebrew and in Windows using Scoop

Ubuntu

Install some prerequisite packages

$ sudo apt update
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$ sudo apt install build-essential procps curl file git
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Install Homebrew using the provided convenience script

$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
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Add Homebrew in our system PATH using the below commands

$ (echo; echo 'eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"') >> /home/ubuntu/.profile
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$ eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
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Verify the version and install the recommended gcc package

$ brew --version
Homebrew 4.0.15
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$ brew install gcc
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Turn off Homebrew anonymous aggregate user behavior analytics

$ brew analytics
Analytics are enabled.
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$ brew analytics off
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$ brew analytics
Analytics are disabled.
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Install AWS CLI and verify its version

$ brew install awscli
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$ aws --version
aws-cli/2.11.16 Python/3.11.3 Linux/5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2 source/x86_64.ubuntu.22 prompt/off
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Windows

Open a Powershell terminal (version 5.1 or above) and execute the below commands to install Scoop

> Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
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> irm get.scoop.sh | iex
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Install AWS CLI and verify its version

> scoop install aws
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> aws --version
aws-cli/2.11.16 Python/3.11.3 Windows/10 exe/AMD64 prompt/off
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Reference

https://brew.sh/

https://scoop.sh/

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