gcloud command not found - while installing Google

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.google.com | bash

as seen at https://cloud.google.com/sdk/

It got all the way to the end and finished but even after I restarted my shell, the gcloud command still says it's not found.

Why isn't this installation working?

Answer 1

You just have to execute this command as root

$ curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash

Restart the terminal and that's it. Now all commands should be executed as root

Answer 2

To launch it on MacOs Sierra, after install gcloud I modified my .bash_profile

Original lines:

# The next line updates PATH for the Google Cloud SDK.
if [ -f '/Users/alejandro/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc' ]; then . '/Users/alejandro/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc'; fi

# The next line enables shell command completion for gcloud.
if [ -f '/Users/alejandro/google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc' ]; then . '/Users/alejandro/google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc'; fi

updated to:

# The next line updates PATH for the Google Cloud SDK.
if [ -f '/Users/alejandro/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc' ]; then source '/Users/alejandro/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc'; fi

# The next line enables shell command completion for gcloud.
if [ -f '/Users/alejandro/google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc' ]; then source '/Users/alejandro/google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc'; fi

Restart the terminal and all become to work as expected!

Answer 3

This worked for me :

After saying Y to Modify profile to update your $PATH and enable bash completion? (Y/n)?

Google initiation is prompting this : Enter a path to an rc file to update, or leave blank to use and the default path was : [/Users/MY_USERSAME/.bash_profile]: but instead of pressing enter, I wrote : /Users/MY_USERNAME/.bashrc to change the path.

This would overwrite the default location that Google suggest.

Then, I only had to do source ~/.bashrc and everything works now!

Answer 4

I'm running zsh and found this gist very helpful: https://gist.github.com/dwchiang/10849350

Edit the ~/.zshrc file to include these two lines:

# The next line updates PATH for the Google Cloud SDK.
source /Users/YOUR_USERNAME/google-cloud-sdk/path.zsh.inc

# The next line enables zsh completion for gcloud.
source /Users/YOUR_USERNAME/google-cloud-sdk/completion.zsh.inc

This assumes you installed the package in your main directory from the official docs

Answer 5

I had to source my bash_profile file. To do so,

1. Open up a Terminal session.
2. In that session type: source .bash_profile and then press enter

Now, the gcloud command should work

Answer 6

Post installation instructions are not clear:

==> Source [/.../google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc] in your profile to enable shell command completion for gcloud.
==> Source [/.../google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc] in your profile to add the Google Cloud SDK command line tools to your $PATH.

I had to actually add the following lines of code in my .bash_profile for gcloud to work:

source '/.../google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc'
source '/.../google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc'