Boto3 and AWS CLI incompatibility issue

Question

I executed command pip3 install awscli --upgrade --user on my MAC and got the following:

boto3 1.8.8 has requirement botocore<1.12.0,>=1.11.8, but you'll have botocore 1.12.160 which is incompatible.
boto3 1.8.8 has requirement s3transfer<0.2.0,>=0.1.10, but you'll have s3transfer 0.2.0 which is incompatible.

I'm looking for a work around.

Thanks in advance.

Why is it trying to install boto3 1.8.8? The current version is `boto3-1.9.143`. Things always go crazy with installing libraries with Python. I would recommend using a Python Virtual Environment and installing your libraries in there, so that you have better control over libraries and their versions. — John Rotenstein, Jun 05 '19 at 05:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 12 '19 at 13:13

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Can you please try the following command to upgrade awscli and its modules.

sudo pip install awscli --force-reinstall --upgrade

answered Jun 12 '19 at 13:13

Kc Bickey

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0x4a6f4672 · Answer 2 · 2020-01-20T10:23:07.290

Older versions of the boto3 Python package are not compatible to awscli. I ran into the same problem because I had an old boto3 version 1.10.27 installed

$ pip list | grep -E "boto3|aws"
awscli  1.17.5      
boto3   1.10.27

The latest version of boto3 is at the moment version 1.11.5 https://pypi.org/project/boto3/ . After installing version 1.11.5 the error went away

$ pip uninstall boto3
$ pip install boto3==1.11.5

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 20 '20 at 19:36

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The following command worked for me as it upgrades all the packages within the environment

conda upgrade --all -y

answered Apr 20 '20 at 19:36

Sincole Brans

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This didn't upgrade my boto3 package even though I know there is a more recent version (but that version seems incompatible with the latest s3fs, so I'm stuck) – yeliabsalohcin Jan 07 '21 at 22:20

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 19 '21 at 21:44

Just uninstall and reinstall all of the conflicting libraries together, so that pip sorts out the right versions:

For example if you have conflicts between botocore, s3transfer and boto3, just do:

pip3 uninstall botocore, s3transfer, boto3
pip3 install botocore, s3transfer, boto3

Don't forget to update your requirements.txt accordingly for next time libraries need to be installed.

pip3 freeze > requirements.txt

Boto3 and AWS CLI incompatibility issue

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