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It works the best in a machine w/ installed Java and some EC2 software. This is reasonable instruction: http://www.linuxconfig.org/Howto_CREATE_BUNDLE_UPLOAD_and_ACCESS_custom_Debian_AMI_using_ubuntu
It is written for Ubuntu 9.04 machine, so I selected this VM:
ami-2bfd1d42 binarymillenium/ec2/ubuntu/version2/image.manifest.xml
and added the following: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/
next I added:
mkdir ~/aws
cd ~/aws
wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-ami-tools.zip
unzip -d /opt/ ec2-ami-tools.zip
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/ec2-api-tools-1.3-2415934544/bin/ (but version # was different)
export EC2_HOME=/opt/ec2-api-tools-1.3-2415934544/
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/
Now I was able to test the following command does sth
ec2-register
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