Here are the steps for installing the AWS command line tools that are currently available as Ubuntu packages. These include:

• EC2 API tools
• EC2 AMI tools
• IAM - Identity and Access Management
• RDS - Relational Database Service
• Cloud Formation (only on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise)
• ELB - Elastic Load Balancer (only on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise)

Install Packages

Enable the multiverse repository. This can be done through the Ubuntu Update Manager or by editing /etc/apt/sources.list Here are some commands that will enable m