Installing botocore

The Amazon EFS client uses botocore to interact with other AWS services. It is required if you want to monitor mount attempt success or failure for your Amazon EFS file systems in CloudWatch Logs. For more information, see Monitoring mount attempt success or failure status. This section describes how install and upgrade botocore on an Amazon EC2 instance.

To install botocore as an RPM package

1. Run the following command to install wget.

   sudo yum -y install wget

2. Use the following script to install the appropriate version of the pip package manager.

   if [[ "$(python3 -V 2>&1)" =~ ^(Python 3.6.*) ]]; then
       sudo wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.6/get-pip.py -O /tmp/get-pip.py
   elif [[ "$(python3 -V 2>&1)" =~ ^(Python 3.5.*) ]]; then
       sudo wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.5/get-pip.py -O /tmp/get-pip.py
   elif [[ "$(python3 -V 2>&1)" =~ ^(Python 3.4.*) ]]; then
       sudo wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.4/get-pip.py -O /tmp/get-pip.py
   else
       sudo wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -O /tmp/get-pip.py
   fi

3. Run the following commands to install botocore.

   sudo python3 /tmp/get-pip.py
   sudo pip3 install botocore

   Or

   sudo /usr/local/bin/pip3 install botocore

To install botocore as an DEB package

1. Run the following commands to install wget.

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get -y install wget

2. Use the following script to install the appropriate version of the pip package manager.

   if echo $(python3 -V 2>&1) | grep -e "Python 3.6"; then
       sudo wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.6/get-pip.py -O /tmp/get-pip.py
   elif echo $(python3 -V 2>&1) | grep -e "Python 3.5"; then
       sudo wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.5/get-pip.py -O /tmp/get-pip.py
   elif echo $(python3 -V 2>&1) | grep -e "Python 3.4"; then
       sudo wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.4/get-pip.py -O /tmp/get-pip.py
   else
       sudo apt-get -y install python3-distutils
       sudo wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -O /tmp/get-pip.py
   fi

3. Run the following commands to install botocore.

   sudo python3 /tmp/get-pip.py
   sudo pip3 install botocore

   Or

   sudo /usr/local/bin/pip3 install botocore

   If you are installing botocore on Debian10 or Ubuntu20, use the following commands to install botocore in the specified target folder.

   • For Debian10:

     sudo python3 /tmp/get-pip.py
     sudo pip3 install --target /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages botocore

   • For Ubuntu20:

     sudo /usr/local/bin/pip3 install --target /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages botocore

To install botocore on a Mac instance

• Run the following command to install botocore on your Mac instance.

  sudo pip3 install botocore

Upgrading botocore

To upgrade to the latest compatible version of botocore, use the --upgrade option. For example:

sudo pip3 install botocore --upgrade