install aws cli on cloud9

Question

Has anyone else encountered this error on cloud9 when trying to install the AWS cli. I followed the instructions here as follows:

sudo yum -y update          # (1) Install the latest system updates.
sudo yum -y install aws-cli # (2) Install the AWS CLI.
aws --version               # (3) Confirm the AWS CLI was installed.

When I run (2) a message appears saying the install is complete. But when I run (3) the following error message appears:

$ aws --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/aws", line 19, in <module>
    import awscli.clidriver
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/awscli/clidriver.py", line 36, in <module>
    from awscli.help import ProviderHelpCommand
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/awscli/help.py", line 20, in <module>
    from docutils.core import publish_string
  File "/home/ec2-user/environment/python_packages/docutils/core.py", line 246
    print('\n::: Runtime settings:', file=self._stderr)
                                         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Has anyone else encountered this error? Managed to solve it?

Answer 1

You have most likely installed the wrong/outdated version of awscli.

It is recommended to install awscli via pip.

pip3 install awscli --upgrade --user