AWS command line tools broken : ( - amazon-web-services

Question

I tried to install awscli after ebcli, and they both broke. Currently, if I type aws s3 ls, it just hangs with no response, and if I try to use eb, I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/eb", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('awsebcli==3.8.4', 'console_scripts', 'eb')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 565, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2631, in load_entry_point
return ep.load()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2291, in load
return self.resolve()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2297, in resolve
module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ebcli/core/ebcore.py", line 43, in <module>
from . import ebglobals, base, io, hooks
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ebcli/core/base.py", line 19, in <module>
from ebcli import __version__
ImportError: cannot import name __version__
I basically need to have command line tools for s3 and elastic beanstalk, but I apparently have no luck, and will be spending my entire day googling the universe, and combing through error codes to try and fix this : (
I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 on a Thinkpad.

Answer 1

It is quite common for different Python libraries to install over each other, causing problems like this.
A popular fix is to use a the virtualenv tool to create isolated Python environments.
The AWS documentation for awsebcli has a page showing how: Install the EB CLI in a Virtual Environment
Alternatively, keep using the AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI) since it works across all AWS services, rather than using service-specific command sets like awsebcli (which pre-date the CLI).