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by pookleblinky 6233 days ago
Depending on the distro used in your EC2 instance, it could be as easy as ssh'ing into it and then running:

sudo apt-get install nano

or whatever other package manager is used.
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davidmathers 6233 days ago
sudo apt-get install nano

It's either going to be that or

sudo yum install nano

Depending on which linux OS you're using. But it may already be installed.

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jasonkester 6231 days ago 

  [root@domU-12-31-39-00-E8-E8 ~]# sudo yum install nano
  Setting up Install Process
  Setting up repositories
  Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
  Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
That's pretty much what I get every time I try to install anything with yum. Are you saying that it can actually find and install software for you?

The only time it ever worked for me was installing Mono. I just assumed that there were very few software packages that it worked for and that you had to hand-install the rest.

Is there an easy way to teach it how to find stuff? If so, that would be great news.

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davidmathers 6230 days ago
In cases like this google is your friend. Just type "Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released" (in quotes) into google.

I use Ubuntu and apt-get. It all just works. Don't know anything about yum myself.

edit: I'm guessing you're using Fedora 10? Here's the package list: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/collections/id/19

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