aws cli in cygwin - how to clean up differences in windows and cygwin style paths

Question

I suspect this is my ineptitude in getting path variables set right, but I\'m at a loss.

I\'ve installed the aws cli using pip in cygwin.

pip install aws         


        

Answer 1

When running pip install awscli from cygwin, it may install awscli in Window's Anaconda Python installation, instead of in Cygwin's Python (which is what you want). Then, when running aws, you will get an error that the aws executable can't be found. The solution I found was installing python/pip inside cygwin by following below bash commands from cygwin shell:

pip uninstall awscli
wget rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg
install apt-cyg /bin
apt-cyg install python
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
pip install awscli

Make sure you have wget installed in cygwin.