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Jeromy French
Jeromy French

Reputation: 12121

How can I install xclip on an EC2 instance?

I'm following Github's instructions for adding an SSH key. I've generated the id_rsa.pub file from my AWS EC2 instance, but I cannot complete the step that has me copy the contents of the file using xclip because I cannot install xclip onto the EC2 instance.

  1. I tried to install xclip on the EC2 instance using sudo yum install xclip, but that didn't work ("No package xclip available").
  2. So I looked around and found more detailed install instructions, but they didn't work either ("curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"), and the suggested correct URLs in the comments also failed.
  3. (I also tried just copying the text contents of the id_rsa.pub file using Putty and ctl-c, but Github declared the resulting key invalid.)

So, how do I install xclip on 64-bit Amazon Linux AMI 2012.09?

Upvotes: 22

Views: 27738

Answers (4)

srgsanky
srgsanky

Reputation: 765

Use

sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel -y
sudo yum install xclip -y

Source: https://gist.github.com/kevin-kientopp/7a1dee73ab0f1bdb21fe158407a028ea

Upvotes: 6

Ordiel
Ordiel

Reputation: 2633

I don't mean to wake up the zombies but in case someone is still wondering you can wget the rpm (i.e. from here) and then 

sudo yum localinstall xclip-0.12-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

Note: you may need to do the same for some dependencies.

Upvotes: 4

Simon Ernesto Cardenas Zarate
Simon Ernesto Cardenas Zarate

Reputation: 2972

I needed this today for a file larger than a ssh-key, and cat was not enough. You need to enable the EPEL repo in EC2 in order to get xclip:

wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum-config-manager --enable epel
sudo yum install xclip -y

Upvotes: 39

Unknown
Unknown

Reputation: 5772

You don't need xclip. Just ssh into the EC2 instance and cat the key to your terminal, then copy and paste it from your terminal to wherever you need it.

Upvotes: 10

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