Installation of Amazon s3cmd Command Line S3 tool on Debian Linux

This short config will describe a installation of s3cmd Command Line S3 tool on Debian. First update your repository:

# apt-get update

Next, install Python package installer pip which will be later used to install s3cmd:

apt-get install python-pip

Now we can use the Python package installer pip to install s3cmd:

# pip install s3cmd
...
Successfully installed s3cmd python-dateutil python-magic
Cleaning up..

Lastly check for a correct installation:

# s3cmd --version
s3cmd version 1.6.0