gcloud command not found - while installing Google Cloud SDK

Question

I am on a mac and am trying to install the Google Cloud SDK (including the gcloud command line utility) using this command in terminal

curl https://sdk.cloud         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem and it was because the ~/.bash_profile had invalid fi statements.

The fix:

1. Execute command sudo nano ~/.bash_profile
2. Removed closing fi statements (the ones missing an opening if)
3. Save .bash_profile changes
4. Execute command source ~/.bash_profile

Answer 2

You have to add the command to the path

Run

brew cask info google-cloud-sdk

and find the lines to append to ~/.zshrc

The lines to append can be obtained from the output of the previous command. For zsh users, It should be some like these:

export CLOUDSDK_PYTHON="/usr/local/opt/python@3.8/libexec/bin/python"
source "/usr/local/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/path.zsh.inc"
source "/usr/local/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/completion.zsh.inc"

(or choose the proper ones from the command output depending un the Shell you are using)

Answer 3

Using .zsh shell you can just try to add glcoud in plugin list in the ~/.zshrc file.

plugins=(
  gcloud
)

If that doesn't work, try this: (updated Krishna's answer)

1. Update the ~/.zshrc file

# Updates PATH for the Google Cloud SDK.
source /Users/austris/google-cloud-sdk/path.zsh.inc

# Enables zsh completion for gcloud.
source /Users/austris/google-cloud-sdk/completion.zsh.inc

2. Update the google-cloud-sdk/path.zsh.inc file with following

script_link="$( readlink "$0" )" || script_link="$0" 
apparent_sdk_dir="${script_link%/*}" 
if [[ "$apparent_sdk_dir" == "$script_link" ]]; then
  apparent_sdk_dir=. 
fi
sdk_dir="$( cd -P "$apparent_sdk_dir" && pwd -P )" 
bin_path="$sdk_dir/bin" 
export PATH=$bin_path:$PATH

*double square brackets at the third line were missing from the original answer

Answer 4

$ sudo su
$ /opt/google-appengine-sdk/bin/gcloud components update
$ su <yourusername>