This should have been simple: Install AWS client command line tools. Catch: Installing it with AWS' example tells me to use the "--user" option, though not why, and supplying --user with or without an argument tells me there is no such switch.
I'd prefer not maintaining this stuff as SU, rather set up a group with access to the necessary libarary areas in Python. $ pip install awscli ERROR: (Gentoo) Please run pip with the --user option to avoid breaking python-exec $ pip --user install awscli Usage: pip <command> [options] no such option: --user $ pip --user=lembark install awscli Usage: pip <command> [options] no such option: --user Examining the output from "pip --help" gives me lots of no "--user" in the output, which makes sense if there are no users. Using "--verbose" didn't tell me anything useful either. Say I want users in the "adm" group to maintain the Python libs, I'll need to ( find <someplace> | xargs chgrp adm; find <someplace> -type d | xargs chmod 02775; find <someplace> -type f | xargs chmod g+w ). Q: Whare are the python lib's stored? Python itself only tells me: $ python -V Python 3.4.5 not the paths. Or, for that matter, does anyone know how to avoid the "--user" requirement using pip? thanks -- Steven Lembark 1505 National Ave Workhorse Computing Rockford, IL 61103 lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508