How can I install s3cmd on Mac OS X Yosemite?

I am using Mac OS X Yosemite and want to install s3cmd from S3Tools. Here is a summary of what I have done so far:

Downloaded and extracted the .tar.gz.
Moved the resulting directory to /usr/local/src
cd /usr/local/src/s3cmd-1.5.0
sudo python setup.py install
s3cmd --configure, displays error message saying Please install the python dateutil module
Installed Homebrew
brew install python (to install pip)
pip install python-dateutil
s3cmd --configure, or s3cmd du s3://bucket-name

At step 9 I still get the error message about the dateutil module:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
ImportError trying to import dateutil.parser. 
Please install the python dateutil module: 
$ sudo apt-get install python-dateutil
   or 
$ sudo yum install python-dateutil
   or 
$ pip install python-dateutil
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mpavey

Posted 2015-01-19T12:30:17.650

Reputation: 143

Hmm worked fine for me, I just did a git clone https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd then ran the sudo python setup.py install from that folder

– Optichip – 2015-01-19T12:41:36.303

Answers

Or you can keep it simple and use Homebrew to install/manage many of the AWS tools, including s3cmd

Install Homebrew by running this command

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Look for the code you want

$ brew search s3
s3-backer  s3cmd      s3fs   s3sync     unfs3

Install s3cmd
```
brew install s3cmd
```

The installer will do all of the dirty work including get dependancies and symlink to your /Applications folder (depending on the app you install).

Want the latest version?
```
brew update
```

I've been using this for the awscli tools for months with great success. GL.

SaxDaddy

Posted 2015-01-19T12:30:17.650

Reputation: 3 181

Download the source of python-dateutil
Extract it to, e.g., /usr/local/src/python-dateutil-2.4.0
cd /usr/local/src/python-dateutil-2.4.0 (or whatever directory you extracted it to)
sudo python2.7 setup.py install
s3cmd --configure

(Answering my own question here. If someone can tell me why this works and the previous approach didn't I'd love to know!)

mpavey

Posted 2015-01-19T12:30:17.650

Reputation: 143

What is your default system python version? Using version 2.7 instead of 3 might have been all you needed to do. – Optichip – 2015-01-19T13:03:44.700

Homebrew doesn't overwrite the OSX installed version of python (which is linked to from /usr/bin/), it installs a new copy in /usr/local/bin. If /usr/bin is before /usr/local/bin in your $path then you'll be using the OSX version of python, not the homebrew one. Also you will have to restart your shell after installing homebrew's python to update the environment variable. Try which python to see what you're actually running. – stib – 2015-01-19T13:26:32.473

Thanks both. @Optichip, version 2.7 is the default version. When I run which python I get: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python @stib, that's very helpful info, thanks. I guess I'm still a little uncertain why I was previously able to run pip successfully yet not get the dateutils installed. Is it because the only pip installed was the Homebrew version, and so (at step 8) it installed dateutils to the Homebrew python? – mpavey – 2015-01-19T14:22:23.640