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Installing AWS CLI on Mac

To install awscli on mac you need Python 2.6.5 or higher.

Install using pip

pip install awscli

You might get the below error during the installation

Installing collected packages: six, python-dateutil, docutils, botocore, colorama, pyasn1, rsa, futures, s3transfer,    awscli
  Found existing installation: six 1.4.1
    DEPRECATION: Uninstalling a distutils installed project (six) has been deprecated and will be removed in a    future version. This is due to the fact that uninstalling a distutils project will only partially uninstall the   project.
    Uninstalling six-1.4.1:
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run
    prefix=options.prefix_path,
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 778, in install
    requirement.uninstall(auto_confirm=True)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 754, in uninstall
    paths_to_remove.remove(auto_confirm)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_uninstall.py", line 115, in remove
    renames(path, new_path)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 267, in renames
    shutil.move(old, new)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 302, in move
    copy2(src, real_dst)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 131, in copy2
    copystat(src, dst)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 103, in copystat
    os.chflags(dst, st.st_flags)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted:     '/var/folders/p5/qvcpp48j55z1zqsggck_v1280000gn/T/pip-zghy0c-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.    framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info'

Solution

sudo -H pip install awscli --upgrade --ignore-installed six