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1 - Download the latest version of s3fs (which is a FUSE backend for S3) from http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/downloads/list
wget http://s3fs.googlecode.com/files/s3fs-r177-source.tar.gz
2 - Unpack it:
tar zxf s3fs-r177-source.tar.gz