How To Install awscli on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install awscli on Ubuntu 20.04. awscli is Universal Command Line Environment for AWS Universal Command Line Environment for AWS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install awscli on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is awscli

awscli is:

This package provides a unified command line interface to many Amazon Web Services.

The currently supported services include:

  • AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS Data Pipeline
  • AWS Direct Connect
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • AWS Identity and Access Management
  • AWS Import/Export
  • AWS OpsWorks
  • AWS Security Token Service
  • AWS Storage Gateway
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • Amazon ElastiCache
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
  • Amazon Elastic MapReduce
  • Amazon Elastic Transcoder
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Amazon Relational Database Service (Beta)
  • Amazon Simple Email Service
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service
  • Amazon Simple Workflow Service
  • Auto Scaling
  • Elastic Load Balancing

Package: awscli Architecture: all Version: 1.17.14-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 7610 Depends: groff, python3, python3-botocore (>= 1.12.103), python3-pyasn1, python3-colorama, python3-docutils, python3-rsa, python3-s3transfer, python3-yaml, python3:any Filename: pool/universe/a/awscli/awscli_1.17.14-1_all.deb Size: 910740 MD5sum: 12c43bc5ded9cf5e6b3188c691a7feb4 SHA1: 0c27ff71066475b78009a8bbd132e37b342ac634 SHA256: 81aae98009f723bbd8e7bdf49952395255b142331c0e377ed4bcaa9e39b3a9a3 Homepage: https://aws.amazon.com/cli/ Description-en: Universal Command Line Environment for AWS This package provides a unified command line interface to many Amazon Web Services.

The currently supported services include:

  • AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS Data Pipeline
  • AWS Direct Connect
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • AWS Identity and Access Management
  • AWS Import/Export
  • AWS OpsWorks
  • AWS Security Token Service
  • AWS Storage Gateway
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • Amazon ElastiCache
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
  • Amazon Elastic MapReduce
  • Amazon Elastic Transcoder
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Amazon Relational Database Service (Beta)
  • Amazon Simple Email Service
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service
  • Amazon Simple Workflow Service
  • Auto Scaling
  • Elastic Load Balancing

There are three methods to install awscli on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install awscli Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install awscli using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install awscli

Install awscli Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install awscli using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install awscli

Install awscli Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install awscli using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install awscli

How To Uninstall awscli on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove awscli

Uninstall awscli And Its Dependencies

To uninstall awscli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove awscli

Remove awscli Configurations and Data

To remove awscli configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge awscli

Remove awscli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove awscli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge awscli

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install awscli package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.