Installing ec2-api-tools & s3cmd by Amazon

When starting a Linux instance on an Amazon cloud, there is no such important utility in the database as ec2-api-tools, which includes most of the API commands for working with Amazon and its services, and s3cmd is a means of working with S3.


1. Installing ec2-api-tools

We will put the classic antiquated method, because FC8 is not included in yum.
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We put Java and export JAVA_HOME
Source for downloading fresh java here

mv jre-6u20-linux-i586.bin?AuthParam=1272..... jre.bin
chmod +x jre.bin
./jre.bin
mv jre1.6.0_20 /usr/lib/jvm/
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_20/ /usr/lib/jvm/jre
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre

Downloading fresh ec2-api-tools and exporting EC2_HOME

curl -O s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-api-tools.zip
unzip ec2-api-tools.zip
mv ec2-api-tools-1.3-24159 /usr/local/
ln -s /usr/local/ec2-api-tools-1.3-24159 /usr/local/ec2-api-tools
export EC2_HOME=/usr/local/ec2-api-tools

Sets a variable in PATH

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/ec2-api-tools/bin

Also export & PATH can be written to / etc / profile for permanent use.

2. We put s3cmd

In general, the package is in the system (about which comrade maxout already wrote here , it is worth reading about the implementation of backup based on s3)

aptitude install s3cmd or yum install s3cmd.noarch

after installing it nada configure.
s3cmd --configure
enter the access key & secret access key of your s3, it will save the settings in ~ / .s3cmd

Or install from the archive. Download the utility here.
tar xvfz s3cmd-0.9.9.91.tar.gz
cd s3cmd-0.9.9.91

You can use it directly from the folder if you do not want to install it, or install

python setup.py install
you need a python distutils - apt-get install python-setuptools .

After that, the utility is ready to work, but you still need to configure it - s3cmd --configure