Aws-cli: sudo pip install awscli no longer working with MacOS

[murvinlai]

It doens't work because of permission problem with the new OS EI Capitan.

Probably need to use some other ways to install it.

[JordonPhillips]

You can install it in the system python with the following command:

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

Otherwise, you may install it in a virtualenv or brew python, neither of which have the same issues. There has been some discussion of this in #1522

[timotgl]

Still an issue for me with python 2.7.10 on OS X 10.11.6:

Uninstalling six:
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 107, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 261, in run
    requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 1162, in install
    requirement.uninstall(auto_confirm=True)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 495, in uninstall
    paths_to_remove.remove(auto_confirm)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 1492, in remove
    renames(path, new_path)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pip/util.py", line 273, 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: '/tmp/pip-KBgdZ3-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info'

Using pip install --user awscli worked for me though.

[wyardley]

[sudo] pip install awscli --ignore-installed six works fine for me, but doesn't it miss the point, since it will end up with not the right version of six? I think it would be ideal if the tool doesn't require a newer six to just accept the version that's installed with OS X, or, if not, come up with a cleaner workaround. I'm sure there are quite a lot of folks who want to run aws CLI from OS X, and while it's easy to google the fix, it's a pain, and I seem to have to do it every time I need to install the tool.

And ps - This is still an issue with the newest version of OS X.

[Inlesco]

@wyardley

'[sudo] pip install awscli --ignore-installed six' worked for me as well. Saved the day, basically. Thanks.

It looks like there's still some issues when following the official guidelines here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-install-macos.html as it couldn't install aws in my case.