Cannot install inotify on Amazon EC2

Question

I have an AWS EC2 instance and wants to install inotify-tools. I've added the repository by executing the command: rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm then execute yum install inotify-tools but getting No package inotify-tools available.

Please help

Neal Magee · Answer 1 · 2021-10-07T14:06:39.803

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I bumped into this issue as well. The solution below is a bit easier than grabbing an RPM or the source and compiling.

The Amazon Linux AMI comes with the EPEL repository source, but it's disabled. So you need to enable it.

Original Amazon Linux (1) AMI:

sudo yum-config-manager --enable epel

Amazon Linux 2 AMI:

sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel -y

Then run a regular yum update and install the toolset:

sudo yum update
sudo yum install inotify-tools

edited Oct 07 '21 at 14:06

answered Feb 05 '15 at 12:59

Neal Magee

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Thanks @Neal. Changed the approach on file synchronization accross EC2 instances so I haven't actually tried this one out. Thanks anyways. – marvinv Apr 20 '15 at 01:50
Not working for me. No package inotify-tools available. Error: Nothing to do – Akash Chauhan Apr 30 '21 at 06:22
@AkashChauhan - see updated instructions, per Sairam below. Amazon Linux 2 changed the command slightly. – Neal Magee May 04 '21 at 20:26

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 21 '19 at 05:31

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Install and enable the EPEL rpm package on RHEL 7 and Amazon Linux 2

sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

answered Jan 21 '19 at 05:31

mon

Voted both answers up. To resolve my issue I did following 3 steps 1. sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm (answer by @mon) 2. sudo yum-config-manager --enable epel 3. sudo yum update 4. sudo yum install inotify-tools (answer by @Neal) Thanks – Babar Baig Dec 19 '19 at 13:55

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 30 '20 at 18:21

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sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel
sudo yum install inotify-tools

For me, none of the above answers worked. I had to install epel-release and then install inotify-tools

answered Apr 30 '20 at 18:21

Sairam

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