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.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

So below is my previous fix for this problem, but it turns out it isn't permanent. It works but every time you restart Terminal, you'd have to do the same thing which isn't practical.

So that is why I suggest you delete the current google-cloud-sdk directory, and just redo the installation. Be sure (as Zachary has mentioned) to answer yes (Y) to the prompt Modify profile to update your $PATH and enable bash completion? (Y/n).

Here is my old answer, but just redo the installation:

I had the same problem, gcloud wasn't working for me. But then, in the same directory as my google-cloud-sdk folder which I had just installed (my home directory), I found this file called test. Inside this test file I found two commands:

# The next line updates PATH for the Google Cloud SDK.
source '[path-to-my-home]/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc'
# The next line enables bash completion for gcloud.
source '[path-to-my-home]/google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc'

After I ran these two source commands in terminal, gcloud worked!

Answer 2

Same here, I try

source ~/.bashrc

Then, It worked

Answer 3

How to install GCloud and Always Works after Restart On Mac OS HIGH Sierra:

1. Download install package Here

2. Achieved file and drop in your folder

3. Open terminal, go to your folder with file and enter this command:

    ./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh
   

4. "Modify profile to update your $PATH and enable bash completion?"
   Yes

5. Enter this path to modify:
   /Users/USERNAME_COMPUTER/.bashrc

6. After all install, enter this:

     source ~/.bashrc
   

7. Enter this to check install gcloud:
   

   gcloud - -version

8. Open new window terminal cmd+n DONT CLOSE OLD WINDOW and enter in new window gcloud version

   if: «command not found» go to step 9
   

   else: Congratulations GCloud work in terminal

9. Return to old window and enter echo $PATH and copy path to GCloud

10. Open BASH_PROFILE:

    open ~/.bash_profile
    

11. Enter path to new Bash:
    

    « export PATH="/Users/USERNAME_COMPUTER/google-cloud-sdk/bin:$PATH" »
    

12. Return to step 8

Answer 4

This one worked for me:

source ~/.bash_profile

Answer 5

On Mac/Linux, you'll need to enter the following entry in your ~/.bashrc:

export PATH="/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/bin:$PATH"

Answer 6

I had this issue today, and adding sudo to the install command fixed my issue on maxOS Sierra!

sudo ./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh

Answer 7

When installing the SDK I used this method:

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

When using this method from the original author make sure you have accepted the security preferences in your mac settings to allow apps downloaded from app store and identified developers.

Answer 8

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 9

I know this question has been answered, but here are my two cent. After installing gcloud, you need to restart the shell before you able to gcloud command.

How you do this, mostly depends on the file you keep your shell configuration. Most files are .bashrc_profile, .bashrc, .zshrc.

You can now restart with

source ~/.bashrc_profile

You can replace the file to the file you have.

Or if you don't care the file you have, on Mac or linux you can restart the shell .

exec -l $SHELL

Answer 10

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 11

You have to add the command to the path

Run

brew info --cask 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 12

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 13

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 14

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 15

I found incorrect if-fi statements in my ~/.bash_profile (no if condition in the next block)

source '/Users/yorko/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc'

fi

I just had to remove "fi" and run "source ~/.bash_profile" to make it work.

Answer 16

If you're a macOS homebrew zsh user:

1. brew cask install google-cloud-sdk

2. Update your ~/.zshrc:

plugins=(
  ...
  gcloud
)

3. Open new shell.

Answer 17

If running

source ~/.bashrc

results in "No such file or directory"

On windows:

1. Go to c/Users/
2. While holding shift, right-click .bashrc file and select "Copy as path"
3. In bash: source <pasteCopiedPathHere> -> for example: source "C:\Users\John\.bashhrc"

Answer 18

If you are running ZSH shell in MacOS you should rerun the installation and when you be asked for this question:

Modify profile to update your $PATH and enable shell command 
completion?

answer YES

and

Enter a path to an rc file to update, or leave blank to use 
    [/Users/your_user/.bash_profile]:

answer(your zshrc path): /Users/your_user/.zshrc

Restart Terminal and that's all.

Answer 19

If you are on MAC OS and using .zsh shell then do the following:

1. Edit your .zshrc and add the following

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

2. Create new file named path.zsh.inc under your home directory(/Users/USER_NAME/):

   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
   

Checkout more @ Official Docs

Answer 20

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 21

In addition to the above answers, depending on your distro, it may be necessary to execute the bash command from the command line before calling your gsutil command. This is the case for distros that have tcsh or other shell as the default. By typing "bash" the source is changed to the .bashrc file and the file is executed.

# Step 1
bash
# Step 2
gsutil 
#Step 3: profit!

Answer 22

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

Answer 23

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'

Answer 24

sudo ./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh

I ran this in the root directory and it worked. I'm running macOS Mojave Version 10.14.3.

Answer 25

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 26

Now after running install.sh in Mac OS, google itself giving the information to run completion.bash.inc and path.bash.inc.

If you're using zsh terminal, it'll ask you to run completion.zsh.inc and path.zsh.inc. Please see the image below

Answer 27

I had a very different story here that turned out to be caused by my Python virtual environments.

Somewhere in the middle of running curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash, I was getting error:

~/google-cloud-sdk/install.sh
Welcome to the Google Cloud SDK!
pyenv: python2: command not found

The `python2' command exists in these Python versions:
  2.7.14
  miniconda2-latest

solution I've modified google-cloud-sdk/install.sh script:

# if CLOUDSDK_PYTHON is empty
if [ -z "$CLOUDSDK_PYTHON" ]; then
  # if python2 exists then plain python may point to a version != 2
  #if _cloudsdk_which python2 >/dev/null; then
  #  CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=python2
  if _cloudsdk_which python2.7 >/dev/null; then
    # this is what some OS X versions call their built-in Python
    CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=python2.7

and was able to run the installation successfully. However, I still need to activate my pyenv that has python2 command to run gcloud.

why so

If you look at the google-cloud-sdk/install.sh script, you'll see that it's actually checking for versions of Python in a very brute manner:

if [ -z "$CLOUDSDK_PYTHON" ]; then
  # if python2 exists then plain python may point to a version != 2
  if _cloudsdk_which python2 >/dev/null; then
    CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=python2

However, on my machine python2 doesn't point to Python binary, neither returns null. So the installation crashed.

Answer 28

Try doing this command on Ubuntu/Linux:

sudo ./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh

Close the terminal or open a new window as the log says:

==> Start a new shell for the changes to take effect.

Once it is done try installing any package by glcloud command:

gcloud components install app-engine-php

It won't show the error.

Answer 29

In short:

emacs -nw ~/.zshrc
And add following line at the beginning:

# The next line updates PATH for the Google Cloud SDK.
source '/home/lesaint/GOOGLE_CLOUD/google-cloud-sdk/path.zsh.inc'

#The next lines enables bash completion in Zsh for gcloud. 
autoload -U compinit compdef
compinit
source '/home/lesaint/GOOGLE_CLOUD/google-cloud-sdk/completion.zsh.inc'

The solution proposed by following article works for me:

Referencee: http://www.javatronic.fr/tips/2014/10/17/installing_google_cloud_sdk_on_ubuntu_with_oh-my-zsh.html

Check my solution: -bash: gcloud: command not found on Mac

Answer 30

The cause of my installation failure:

• I am running a zsh terminal and the install.sh inserts path.bash.inc into my .bash_profile

fix:

1. cd [whereever]/google-cloud-sdk && ./install.sh
2. vi ~/.bash_profile
3. replace all instances of path.bash.inc with path.zsh.inc

os config:

• macOS Catalina
• zsh

ref:

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/61491744/1989698