[python] How do I install boto?

So that I am able to work with it within my python scripts?

Installing Boto depends on the Operating system. For e.g in Ubuntu you can use the aptitude command:

sudo apt-get install python-boto

Or you can download the boto code from their site and move into the unzipped directory to run

python setup.py install

Best way to install boto in my opinion is to use:

pip install boto-1.6 

This ensures you'll have the boto glacier code.

$ easy_install boto

Edit: pip is now by far the preferred way to install packages

If you're on a mac, by far the simplest way to install is to use easy_install

sudo easy_install boto3

1. install pip: https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html

2. insatll boto: https://github.com/boto/boto

   $ git clone git://github.com/boto/boto.git
   $ cd boto
   $ python setup.py install

If you already have boto installed in one python version and then install a higher python version, boto is not found by the new version of python.

For example, I had python2.7 and then installed python3.5 (keeping both). My script under python3.5 could not find boto. Doing "pip install boto" told me that boto was already installed in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages.

So I did

pip install --target /usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages boto

This allowed my script under python3.5 to find boto.

switch to the boto-* directory and type python setup.py install.

While trying out the

pip install boto

command, I encounter the error

ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

To resolve this, issue another command to handle the setuptools using curl

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py | python

After doing that, the following command will work perfectly.

pip install boto

1. If necessary, install pip:

   sudo apt-get install python-pip

2. Then install boto:

   pip install -U boto