How do i install awscli in a python virtualenv?

maltiger

First install the python virtualenv software.

$ pip install --user virtualenv
Collecting virtualenv
  Downloading virtualenv-15.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.8MB)
    100%....
    1.8MB 824kB/s 
Installing collected packages: virtualenv
Successfully installed virtualenv-15.1.0

Create a virtualenv.

$ virtualenv ~/my-ve
New python executable in /home/parallels/my-ve/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.

Activate the virtualenv.

$ source ~/my-ve/bin/activate
(my-ve) $

Install the awscli commands.

(my-ve) $ pip install --upgrade awscli
Collecting awscli
  Using cached awscli-1.14.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl
...
...
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Verify.

(my-ve) $ aws --version
aws-cli/1.14.11 Python/2.7.12 Linux/4.10.0-42-generic botocore/1.8.15