aws First commands after sshing onto ec2: Getting python going sudo yum -y update sudo yum groupinstall -y development sudo yum install -y zlib-dev openssl-devel sqlite-devel bzip2-devel wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/Python-2.7.6.tar.xz xz -d Python-2.7.6.tar.xz tar -xvf Python-2.7.6.tar cd Python-2.7.6 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make altinstall export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" wget --no-check-certificate https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-1.4.2.tar.gz tar -xvf setuptools-1.4.2.tar.gz cd setuptools-1.4.2 sudo python2.7 setup.py install curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo python2.7 - sudo pip install virtualenv wget https://3230d63b5fc54e62148e-c95ac804525aac4b6dba79b00b39d1d3.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/Anaconda2-2.5.0-Linux-x86_64.sh bash Anaconda... conda install -c scrapinghub scrapy