Can't install amazon-linux-extras pm AWS EC2 Amazon Linux AMI instance

Question

I'm trying to install amazon-linux-extras using the instructions here:

sudo yum install -y amazon-linux-extras

And I get the following error:

amzn-main                                                                                                                             | 2.1 kB  00:00:00     
amzn-updates                                                                                                                          | 3.8 kB  00:00:00     
839 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
No package amazon-linux-extras available.
Error: Nothing to do

Why is the package not available?

I have EPEL installed, so I don't understand what's going on.

UPDATE

Output of

sudo yum repolist

Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
843 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
repo id                       repo name                                               status
!amzn-main/latest             amzn-main-Base                                               5,934
!amzn-updates/latest          amzn-updates-Base                                            4,722
epel/x86_64                   Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64          12,517+843
repolist: 23,173

can you please show the output of the following command `sudo yum repolist` — BANJOSA, Jun 19 '20 at 17:29
@BANJOSA I updated the question with the output of the command you asked. what do you think i should do? — Aerodynamika, Jul 01 '20 at 22:54
Do you have to set yum repo list explicitly? my ec2 server has no yum repos and im struggling to find and add them. — Sambuxc, Dec 04 '21 at 14:22
Amazon Linux 2022, the successor for 2, has removed `amazon-linux-extras` [see documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2022/release-notes/removed-packages-al2022.html) — Richard Tyler Miles, Dec 07 '22 at 16:17

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 09 '21 at 23:11

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I ran into the same error message when attempting to create an Amazon Linux 2 instance using the AWS CDK. The CDK currently defaults to Amazon Linux instead of Amazon Linux 2. When you accidentally use an Amazon Linux AMI from 2018, surprise surprise, all sorts of facilities are not available. I posted an easy way to check your version in another answer.

In CDK (and Cloud Formation) make sure to declare your intended generation in your AmazonLinuxImage properties

generation: AmazonLinuxGeneration.AMAZON_LINUX_2

answered Feb 09 '21 at 23:11

Derek Bennett

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I wish i could upvote this more. – rodrigocf Jul 18 '21 at 17:51
This worked for me, thanks. Should be marked as the answer. – lkisac Apr 02 '23 at 12:46

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 09 '20 at 13:58

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It looks like this issue is potentially being caused by YUM priorities. You could try disabling priorities to see if that is the issue. The config file used to disable yum priorities can be found here.

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf

Change the config to be "enabled = 0" and try again.

answered Sep 09 '20 at 13:58

Stratos

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still the same for me... – Richard Fu Dec 17 '20 at 08:04
downvoted: generally does not work – danorton Apr 30 '22 at 22:33

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 02 '22 at 04:14

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You can't install amazon-linux-extras on Amazon Linux 2018 AMI

answered Nov 02 '22 at 04:14

Mike Nguyen

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 20 '23 at 17:21

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I'm able to install on EC2 instance of AMI "Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM)"

answered Mar 20 '23 at 17:21

Gowtham

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Can't install amazon-linux-extras pm AWS EC2 Amazon Linux AMI instance

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