s3cmd command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix s3cmd command not found error message

Introduction

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

s3cmd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: s3cmd: command not found

Solutions to s3cmd: command not found

How To Fix s3cmd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu s3cmd is provided by s3cmd package.

s3cmd is:

Command-line tool to upload, retrieve and manage data in Amazon S3 service (http://www.amazon.com/s3/), designed for use in scripts. Features:

  • creating and destroying S3 buckets
  • uploading and downloading files
  • listing remote files
  • removing remote files
  • synchronizing local directories to S3 buckets
  • getting various information about buckets and disk usage

s3cmd supports both (US and EU) S3 datacentres.

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

sudo apt-get -y install s3cmd

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

You can also use apt command to install s3cmd.

sudo apt -y install s3cmd

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

sudo aptitude install s3cmd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix s3cmd command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.