ec2dre command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ec2dre command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

ec2dre: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ec2dre: command not found

In Ubuntu ec2dre is provided by ec2-api-tools package.

ec2-api-tools is:

The Amazon EC2 API tools are command-line utilities to help manage an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), manage firewalls and other utilities.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install ec2-api-tools

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install ec2-api-tools.

sudo apt -y install ec2-api-tools

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install ec2-api-tools

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ec2dre command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.