Unable to install the Elastic Beanstalk CLI on Ubuntu - amazon-elastic-beanstalk

Question

I am trying to install the Elastic Beanstalk CLI (awsebcli) on a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 (on Linux subsystem for Windows) using sudo pip install awsebcli, but launching the eb command just returns the following error:
flavien#XPS-FLAVIEN:~$ eb
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/eb", line 6, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3036, in <module>
#_call_aside
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3020, in _call_aside
f(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3049, in _initialize_master_working_set
working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 654, in _build_master
ws.require(__requires__)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 968, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 854, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'termcolor==1.1.0' distribution was not found and is required by awsebcli
Any idea what might be going wrong?

Answer 1

You can reinstall awsebcli with below command if you have issues after installing it:
sudo pip3 install awsebcli --force-reinstall --upgrade
Once its installed check where its installed:
which eb
$ /usr/local/bin/eb #i got eb installed in this path
Next set the path:
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
Then run
eb --version
EB CLI 3.14.6 (Python 3.5.2) #this is my installed version

Answer 2

First install the pip separably and try with this command
pip install --upgrade --user awsebcli

Answer 3

I had awsebcli being installed for Python 2.7 but for some reason running eb needed them for Python 3.x so doing this worked :
$ sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade --user awsebcli
After installing all the required wheels eb worked fine :
$ eb --version
EB CLI 3.14.3 (Python 3.5.2)
Also don't forget to add ~/.local/bin to your PATH variable in ~/.bash_profile

Answer 4

The previous answer helped me to figure this one out.
My detail, I had to install a newer version of python than 2.7, one that supported the --trusted-host switch to allow me to get all of my dependencies:
What I ran:
pip --cert zxroot.pem --trusted-host pypi.python.org --proxy [ProxyServer] install --upgrade --user awsebcli
Once I ran that reinstall using the --upgrade switch, eb finally worked:
eb --version
EB CLI 3.10.5 (Python 3.3.1)
I know this is very specific to my particulars but it might help someone else.
Good luck.

Answer 5

The problem is you are missing quite a few applications required by the scripts to compile.
The following installation steps are required prior to running the EB CLI scripts.
As I'm a windows user I created a clean VirtualBox VM install of Ubuntu 18.04.2
Update Ubuntu
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo reboot
Install curl,wget
sudo apt install curl
sudo apt install wget
Install zlib
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
Install libffi
sudo apt-get install libffi libffi5-dev
Install OpenSSL
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
Install gcc
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt install libx11-dev
gcc --version
make -v
Install Python 3.7
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt install python3.7
python3.7 --version
alias python='python3.7'
Install Git
sudo apt install git
After this run the EB CLI
You should see these 5 successful progress steps
Creating exclusive virtualenv for EBCLI
Activating virtualenv
Installing EBCLI
Creating EB wrappers
Finishing up
Success!

Answer 6

Try This:
sudo chown -R username:username ~/.local/
# add to ./*shrc
export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin/
pip install --upgrade --user awsebcli
eb --version
#EB CLI 3.10.1 (Python 2.7.1)