How to Install aws-sam-cli in ubuntu 14?

Question

I want to update aws-sam-cli on my ubuntu 14.04. I have sam 0.2.11 version. I want to update in 0.3.0. When I run

pip install --user aws-sam-cli

or

pip install --user --upgrade aws-sam-cli

I got

Downloading/unpacking aws-sam-cli Downloading aws-sam-cli-0.3.0.tar.gz (128kB): 128kB downloaded Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_amber/aws-sam-cli/setup.py) egg_info for package aws-sam-cli /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'python_requires' warnings.warn(msg) error in aws-sam-cli setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'python_requires' warnings.warn(msg) error in aws-sam-cli setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers

Cleaning up... Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_amber/aws-sam-cli Storing debug log for failure in /home/amber/.pip/pip.log**

Answer 1

I had the same issue and here's how I installed aws-sam-cli

Make sure you uninstall aws-sam-local if you have an older version with

npm uninstall -g aws-sam-local

Then run

pip install --user --upgrade setuptools
pip install ez_setup
pip install --user --upgrade aws-sam-cli

Answer 2

Try uninstalling the old version and reinstall it again using the following commands.

npm uninstall -g aws-sam-local

pip install --user aws-sam-cli

If both don't work for you then you can download the source directly from the GitHub repository and use it. you can find the repository at https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sam-cli/releases

Answer 3

Upgrade pip and setuptools:

pip install -U pip setuptools