How To Install s3cmd on CentOS 8

s3cmd is Tool for accessing Amazon Simple Storage Service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install s3cmd on CentOS 8.

What is `s3cmd`

S3cmd lets you copy files from/to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) using a simple to use command line client.

We can use yum or dnf to install s3cmd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install s3cmd.

Install s3cmd on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install s3cmd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install s3cmd

Install s3cmd on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install s3cmd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install s3cmd

How To Uninstall s3cmd on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the s3cmd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove s3cmd

s3cmd Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/s3cmd
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/ACL.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/AccessLog.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/BidirMap.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/CloudFront.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/Config.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/ConnMan.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/Crypto.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/Custom_httplib27.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/Custom_httplib3x.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/Exceptions.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/ExitCodes.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/FileDict.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/FileLists.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/HashCache.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/MultiPart.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/PkgInfo.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/Progress.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/S3.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/S3Uri.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/SortedDict.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/Utils.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/ACL.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/ACL.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/AccessLog.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/AccessLog.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/BidirMap.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/BidirMap.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/CloudFront.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/CloudFront.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Config.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Config.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/ConnMan.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/ConnMan.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Crypto.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Crypto.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Custom_httplib27.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Custom_httplib27.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Custom_httplib3x.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Custom_httplib3x.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Exceptions.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Exceptions.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/ExitCodes.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/ExitCodes.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/FileDict.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/FileDict.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/FileLists.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/FileLists.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/HashCache.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/HashCache.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/MultiPart.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/MultiPart.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/PkgInfo.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/PkgInfo.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Progress.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Progress.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/S3.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/S3.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/S3Uri.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/S3Uri.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/SortedDict.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/SortedDict.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Utils.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/Utils.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/S3/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/s3cmd-2.1.0-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/s3cmd-2.1.0-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/s3cmd-2.1.0-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/s3cmd-2.1.0-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/s3cmd-2.1.0-py3.6.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/s3cmd-2.1.0-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/share/doc/s3cmd
/usr/share/doc/s3cmd/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/s3cmd/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/s3cmd
/usr/share/licenses/s3cmd/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/s3cmd.1.gz

References

s3cmd website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install s3cmd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.