Install Python, PIP and Boto on Windows server

Install Python, PIP and Boto on Windows server 2016

Date Posted:15-04-2017

Python is a famous scripting language and we will explain on how to install python, pip and boto library on windows server. In this post, we will cover on installing python 3 and pip python installer. Additionally, this post deals with how to install boto library using pip installer.

Implementation:

Open Powershell  and set Execution policy for user to remote signed.  This will let the server to download and run the script from internet.

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser

when it prompt for execution policy, enter RemoteSigned

Create  a webclient object on powershell.

$script = New-Object Net.WebClient

Setup a download string for chocolatey to download. Chocolatey is similar to apt-get or yum  command which we used in linux distro

$script.DownloadString("https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1")

Install chocolatey using the below command.

iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex

where,

iwr stands for Invoke-webrequest

iex stands for Invoke-Expression

The above command will install chocolatey on the windows host.

Install Python 3:

Using chocolatey, we will be installing python3 version on the windows server.

choco install -y python3

This will install python3 version, pip and the installation path will be C:\Python3\python.exe

Enter the below command to check the python version. Moreover, you can check the installation as well.

python -V

Install Boto:

Boto is a module to connect aws resources in a python environment. We will use pip to install boto module on windows server.

Cd to the python installed directory

cd c:\python3

Execute the below command to install boto module

pip.exe install boto

Additional Information:

As an additional information, we will explain on installing  nano editor on windows server. Nano is a command line editor which is famous on linux distro. This will be useful to edit files on powershell.

Execute below choco command to install nano editor.

choco install -y nano