{"id":389,"date":"2012-01-09T18:23:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=389"},"modified":"2012-01-22T00:38:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T00:38:53","slug":"install-ec2-tools-in-ubuntu-10-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"install ec2 tools in ubuntu 10.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this was harder than it should have been!<br \/>\nTried to follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/EC2StartersGuide\">https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/EC2StartersGuide<\/a><br \/>\nBut could not get apt-add-repository to work no matter what.<br \/>\n<code> apt-add-repository: command not found <\/code><br \/>\nJust lot&#8217;s of &#8216;command not found&#8217; errors, even after installing the python-software-properties.<br \/>\nFinally thanks to this post with clear instruction for manually updating \/etc\/apt\/sources.list <a href=\"http:\/\/cpanelforums.net\/install-amazon-ec2-api-tools-in-ubuntu\/ \">http:\/\/cpanelforums.net\/install-amazon-ec2-api-tools-in-ubuntu\/<\/a> looks like I got it!<br \/>\nJust in case that site ever goes away, here they are copied!<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n1) Enable multiverse by adding the following lines to end of the file \/etc\/apt\/sources.list<br \/>\ndeb http:\/\/us.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/ lucid multiverse<br \/>\ndeb-src http:\/\/us.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/ lucid multiverse<br \/>\ndeb http:\/\/us.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/ lucid-updates multiverse<br \/>\ndeb-src http:\/\/us.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/ lucid-updates multiverse<\/p>\n<p>2) Now run the following command to update the packages:<br \/>\napt-get -y update<\/p>\n<p>3) Now, install ec2 commandline tools.<br \/>\napt-get install ec2-api-tools<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this was harder than it should have been! Tried to follow this https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/EC2StartersGuide But could not get apt-add-repository to work no matter what. apt-add-repository: command not found Just lot&#8217;s of &#8216;command not found&#8217; errors, even after installing the python-software-properties. Finally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}