How can I copy Juju tools for use in my deployment?

Question

When I try to boostrap my cloud environment I receive the following error:

ERROR command failed: no tools available
error: no tools available

How do I make these tools available for my environment?

Answer 1

For juju-core you can retrieve tools from the public release via the sync-tools subcommand.

 $ juju sync-tools

fwiw, the full help for the command (2013/4/26)

 $ juju sync-tools -h

 usage: juju sync-tools [options]
purpose: copy tools from the official bucket into a local environment

options:
--all  (= false)
    copy all versions, not just the latest
--dev  (= false)
    consider development versions as well as released ones
--dry-run  (= false)
    don't copy, just print what would be copied
-e, --environment (= "")
    juju environment to operate in
--public  (= false)
    write to the public-bucket of the account, instead of the bucket private to the environment.

This copies the Juju tools tarball from the official bucket into your environment. This is generally done when you want Juju to be able to run without having to access Amazon. Sometimes this is because the environment does not have public access, and sometimes you just want to avoid having to access data outside of the local cloud.