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I am trying to install jq JSON parser on amazon instance, unfortunately, i'm not able to install it can someone guide me.

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jq is available in the yum repo so run the following

sudo yum install jq

will install jq on the instance

Frederic Henri
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    Sadly currently (Feb 2022) this will install 1.5 (released in 2015) rather than 1.6 (released in 2018) despite that being 4 years old already. – mjaggard Feb 07 '22 at 14:45
  • Even if you install it you get this: -bash: /usr/local/bin/jq: cannot execute binary file – Lalle Jun 30 '23 at 11:23
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Tried yum install jq on RHEL but did not work as this package is not there..However following commands made the JQ available on my RHEL machine on AWS...

wget -O jq https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-1.6/jq-linux64
chmod +x ./jq
cp jq /usr/bin
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