Installing moreutils on EC2 instance

Question

How do I install moreutils on the default image Amazon EC2 instance? The instances are built off of CentOS but presumably have their own packages repo since

sudo yum install moreutils

fails with

No package moreutils available.

What is the yum repo I need to install moreutils?

Misplace

Answer 1

The epel repo is on the default Amazon server but in not enabled by default. You can use it as follows:

sudo yum --enablerepo epel install moreutils

Note that epel has a very old version of moreutils (0.40 when 0.61 is out), which does not include chronic.

Misplace

Answer 2

For update amazon linux, you can run following commands

sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel
sudo yum install moreutils

Parallax

Answer 3

The EPEL repository has it, and other things. It works with Amazon Linux as well as CentOS, Fedora etc. (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL). To install the config that enables that repo, yum install epel-release.

Aboral

I tried this and was informed Package epel-release-6-8.9.amzn1.noarch already installed and latest version, yet cronic (part of moreutils) gives command not found – Misplace

- The epel-release package installs the epel repo config so you can then update yum again and install the moreutils package from that new repo. - It's spelled chronic, surprisingly. – Aboral

sudo yum update does nothing. I still get No package moreutils available. – Misplace

Possibly something funny about Amazon's distro? serverfault.com/questions/497169/… – Aboral

Btw, apologies as I mis-spoke when I said "update yum", being in a very Debian mindset at the time. In yum, "update" means "upgrade", which isn't really relevant. – Aboral