Install Google Cloud components error from gcloud command

Question

I am trying to install several GCP components from the gcloud command-line tool and always get the same error:

$ gcloud components list

Your current Cloud S         


        

Answer 1

To add some more context to this answer for the Ubuntu OS, these are the steps that I took when I had already installed google-cloud-sdk using the apt-get package manager

1. Remove the existing installation using

   sudo apt-get remove google-cloud-sdk

2. Navigate to https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/quickstart-linux and follow the steps to download the correct tar.gz package for your system

3. Navigate to the download directory and unzip the archive using

   tar -zxf google-cloud-sdk-*

4. Install the SDK using

   ./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh

5. Make the gcloud command available by either:

   • Running source ~/.bashrc or
   • Closing your current terminal session and opening a new one

Using this installation I was then able to update and install kubectl with the following commands

gcloud components update
gcloud components install kubectl