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Homebrew appears to install an older version (unsupported) of the AWS EB tools. Is there a way to get Homebrew to install the current ones?

(I'm new to Homebrew.)

matsev
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    No need, the AWS CLIs are now installed with pip. `sudo pip install awsebcli`. – ceejayoz Jan 02 '15 at 19:32
  • @ceejayoz: I have to laugh! It seems like every time I ask about installing software I get pushed towards Homebrew (I'm perfectly happy with `pip`) and now — on literally the second package I want to install — it turns out that `pip` has what I want and Homebrew doesn't! (Sigh!) – orome Jan 02 '15 at 19:36
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    This is not an answer, but consider using "brew install awscli" which is now a much better solution to aws CLI tools: http://aws.amazon.com/cli/ – bsravanin Jan 02 '15 at 19:41
  • @bsravanin: And uninstall the Brew EB first? How do I do that? – orome Jan 02 '15 at 19:42
  • @raxacoricofallapatorius You can uninstall any formula with "uninstall". Like "brew uninstall aws-elasticbeanstalk". If you had installed the CLI through pip, you would have to accordingly do "pip uninstall" or "sudo pip uninstall". – bsravanin Jan 02 '15 at 19:45
  • @raxacoricofallapatorius You'd install something like Python with Homebrew, but Python has its own package managers (pip and easy_install - entertainingly, you typically install pip with easy_install :-p). Node is similar - you'd install Node with Homebrew, but use NPM to install Node packages. Incidentally, love the username. – ceejayoz Jan 02 '15 at 19:47
  • @ceejayoz: I'll take your initial comment as an answer. That seems to work — and leads to [a follow-on question](http://stackoverflow.com/q/27748032/656912). – orome Jan 02 '15 at 20:18
  • @bsravanin: Things seem to have progressed, so I'm [wondering if migrating to Homebrew makes more sense now](http://stackoverflow.com/q/41490563/656912) (and if it is simple to do). – orome Jan 05 '17 at 17:04

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Peter Eisentraut
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I can confirm that brew install awscli works well on macOS Sierra.

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