I sat down again, for about the eight billionth time to install AWS’s CLI and get to work against some infrastructure. For at least the gazillionth time I get a stupid error, that at this point I really feel the installation process ought to ignore, mitigate, or otherwise handle. But anyway, here’s one very common issue that keeps popping up over and over if you’ve got six installed already that isn’t the version that awscli wants (or doesn’t want).
Cannot uninstall ‘six’. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.
The quick solution to this is to just tell pip to ignore the existing six installation.
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pip install awscli –ignore-installed six –user
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I did a quick search too, just to see what others had found and it looked like this wasn’t an entirely uncommon issue. On Stackoverflow there’s this same issue coming up with other installations.
I’d love to see this, and about a dozen other odd issues that always come up specifically with the awscli. The simple fix, is for AWS just to go ahead and dig into how GCP builds gcloud because that CLI is easily the slickest option of the big three. But I digress, back to work on getting some infrastructure resources out there.
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