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Worbis
Worbis

Reputation: 567

How do I install boto?

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

Upvotes: 53

Views: 117217

Answers (9)

Ilsa
Ilsa

Reputation: 23

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

sudo easy_install boto3

Upvotes: 0

darthvading
darthvading

Reputation: 949

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

Upvotes: 1

royappa
royappa

Reputation: 701

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.

Upvotes: 1

jslopez
jslopez

Reputation: 951

  1. If necessary, install pip:

    sudo apt-get install python-pip

  2. Then install boto:

    pip install -U boto

Upvotes: 73

John La Rooy
John La Rooy

Reputation: 304403

$ easy_install boto

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

Upvotes: 15

loveisbug
loveisbug

Reputation: 411

  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

Upvotes: 2

James O'Rourke
James O'Rourke

Reputation: 1433

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.

Upvotes: 1

sheki
sheki

Reputation: 9359

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

Upvotes: 36

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Reputation: 799210

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

Upvotes: 5

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