Depending on the distro used in your EC2 instance, it could be as easy as ssh'ing into it and then running:
sudo apt-get install nano
or whatever other package manager is used.
sudo apt-get install nano
or whatever other package manager is used.
It's either going to be that or
sudo yum install nano
Depending on which linux OS you're using. But it may already be installed.
[root@domU-12-31-39-00-E8-E8 ~]# sudo yum install nano
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
The only time it ever worked for me was installing Mono. I just assumed that there were very few software packages that it worked for and that you had to hand-install the rest.
Is there an easy way to teach it how to find stuff? If so, that would be great news.
I use Ubuntu and apt-get. It all just works. Don't know anything about yum myself.
edit: I'm guessing you're using Fedora 10? Here's the package list: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/collections/id/19