How to install jq on amazon EC2 instance

Question

I am trying to install jq JSON parser on amazon instance, unfortunately, i'm not able to install it can someone guide me.

Horologium

Answer 1

jq is available in the yum repo so run the following

sudo yum install jq

will install jq on the instance

Carleton

Sadly currently (Feb 2022) this will install 1.5 (released in 2015) rather than 1.6 (released in 2018) despite that being 4 years old already. – Renounce

Even if you install it you get this: -bash: /usr/local/bin/jq: cannot execute binary file – Boggs

Answer 2

Tried yum install jq on RHEL but did not work as this package is not there..However following commands made the JQ available on my RHEL machine on AWS...

wget -O jq https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-1.6/jq-linux64
chmod +x ./jq
cp jq /usr/bin

Spurrier