ec2-download-bundle command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ec2-download-bundle command not found error message

Introduction

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

ec2-download-bundle: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ec2-download-bundle: command not found

Solutions to ec2-download-bundle: command not found

How To Fix ec2-download-bundle: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ec2-download-bundle is provided by ec2-ami-tools package.

ec2-ami-tools is:

The Amazon EC2 AMI Tools are command-line utilities to help bundle an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), create an AMI from an existing machine or installed volume, and upload a bundled AMI to Amazon S3.

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

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

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

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

sudo apt -y install ec2-ami-tools

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

sudo aptitude install ec2-ami-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ec2-download-bundle command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.