title: How can I install xclip on an EC2 instance?
body: <p>I'm following <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys#platform-linux" rel="noreferrer">Github's instructions for adding an SSH key</a>. I've generated the id_rsa.pub file from my AWS EC2 instance, but I cannot complete the step that has me copy the contents of the file using xclip because I cannot install xclip onto the EC2 instance. </p>
  
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  <li>I tried to install xclip on the EC2 instance using <code>sudo yum install
  xclip</code>, but that didn't work ("No package xclip available").</li>
  <li>So I looked around and found <a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/xclip-linux-insert-files-command-output-intoclipboard/" rel="noreferrer">more detailed install instructions</a>, but they
  didn't work either ("curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"), and the suggested correct URLs in the comments also failed.</li>
  <li>(I also tried just copying the text contents of the id_rsa.pub file using Putty and ctl-c, but Github declared the resulting key invalid.)</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>So, how do I install xclip on 64-bit Amazon Linux AMI 2012.09?</p>