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Include information about awscli v2 not working in Alpine Linux as per aws/aws-cli#4685.
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+ [Verifying the Integrity and Authenticity of the Downloaded Files](#v2-install-linux-validate)

## Prerequisites<a name="cliv2-linux-prereq"></a>
+ The AWS CLI version 2 has no dependencies on other software packages\. It has a self\-contained, embedded copy of all dependencies included in the installer\. You no longer need to install and maintain Python to use the AWS CLI\.
+ The AWS CLI version 2 has no dependencies on other software packages except for `glibc`, which is available on nearly all Linux distributions\. It has a self\-contained, embedded copy of all dependencies included in the installer\. You no longer need to install and maintain Python to use the AWS CLI\.
+ You must be able to "unzip" the downloaded package\. If your operating system doesn't have a built\-in `unzip` command, use your favorite package manager to download it or an equivalent\.
+ ****We support the AWS CLI version 2 on recent distributions of CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux 1, and Amazon Linux 2\.
+ We support the AWS CLI version 2 on recent distributions of CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux 1, and Amazon Linux 2\.

**Important**
It is important to note that BusyBox and Alpine Linux, which are popular Linux distributions for Docker containers and continuous integration systems due to their size, use `musl` for their standard C library and do not ship with `glibc` by default\.

## Installing<a name="cliv2-linux-install"></a>

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Primary key fingerprint: FB5D B77F D5C1 18B8 0511 ADA8 A631 0ACC 4672 475C
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**Important**
The warning in the output is expected and doesn't indicate a problem\. It occurs because there isn't a chain of trust between your personal PGP key \(if you have one\) and the AWS CLI PGP key\. For more information, see [Web of trust](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust)\.
The warning in the output is expected and doesn't indicate a problem\. It occurs because there isn't a chain of trust between your personal PGP key \(if you have one\) and the AWS CLI PGP key\. For more information, see [Web of trust](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust)\.

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