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How to install xclip on an EC2 instance?

I follow the Github instructions for adding an SSH key . I generated the id_rsa.pub file from my AWS EC2 instance, but I cannot complete the step where I can copy the contents of the file using xclip because I cannot install xclip on the EC2 instance.

  • I tried installing xclip on an EC2 instance using sudo yum install xclip , but that didn't work ("No xclip package available").
  • So, I looked around and found more detailed installation instructions , but they do not work ("curl: (22) The requested URL returned an error: 404 Not Found"), and the suggested correct URLs in the comments also failed.
  • (I also tried just copying the text contents of id_rsa.pub using Putty and ctl-c, but Github announced that the key received was invalid.)

So how to install xclip on a 64-bit Amazon Linux AMI 2012.09?

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You do not need xclip. Just ssh into the EC2 instance and cat key to your terminal, then copy and paste it from your terminal to where you need it.

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I don't want to wake up zombies, but if someone still wonders if you can wget rpm (i.e. from here ) and then

 sudo yum localinstall my-wget.rpm

Note. you may need to do the same for some dependencies.

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