How can I install s3cmd on Mac OS X Yosemite?

Question

I am using Mac OS X Yosemite and want to install s3cmd from S3Tools. Here is a summary of what I have done so far:

1. Downloaded and extracted the .tar.gz.
2. Moved the resulting directory to /usr/local/src
3. cd /usr/local/src/s3cmd-1.5.0
4. sudo python setup.py install
5. s3cmd --configure, displays error message saying Please install the python dateutil module
6. Installed Homebrew
7. brew install python (to install pip)
8. pip install python-dateutil
9. s3cmd --configure, or s3cmd du s3://bucket-name

At step 9 I still get the error message about the dateutil module:

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ImportError trying to import dateutil.parser. 
Please install the python dateutil module: 
$ sudo apt-get install python-dateutil
   or 
$ sudo yum install python-dateutil
   or 
$ pip install python-dateutil
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Answer 1

Or you can keep it simple and use Homebrew to install/manage many of the AWS tools, including s3cmd

1. Install Homebrew by running this command

   ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
   

2. Look for the code you want

   $ brew search s3
   s3-backer  s3cmd      s3fs   s3sync     unfs3
   

3. Install s3cmd

   brew install s3cmd
   

The installer will do all of the dirty work including get dependancies and symlink to your /Applications folder (depending on the app you install).

4. Want the latest version?

   brew update
   

I've been using this for the awscli tools for months with great success. GL.

Answer 2

1. Download the source of python-dateutil
2. Extract it to, e.g., /usr/local/src/python-dateutil-2.4.0
3. cd /usr/local/src/python-dateutil-2.4.0 (or whatever directory you extracted it to)
4. sudo python2.7 setup.py install
5. s3cmd --configure

(Answering my own question here. If someone can tell me why this works and the previous approach didn't I'd love to know!)

Answer 3

I didn't want to build it from source, and brew was complaining about needing to update xcode (*sigh)... so I created a docker image instead.

Hope this helps someone.

Usage

# setup
docker run -it --rm -v "$(pwd):/root" mountainpass/s3cmd s3cmd --configure

# run
docker run -it --rm -v "$(pwd):/root" mountainpass/s3cmd s3cmd sync ./yourfolder \
    s3://yourbucket/ \
    --acl-public \
    --add-header=Cache-Control:max-age=3600 \
    --recursive