Our server OS is CentOS 6.8, I was trying to install google-cloud-sdk, even though I installed
python 2.7 in /usr/local/bin
, it is still looking at old version of
python 2.6 in /usr/bin
. I tried giving export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH to first look at /usr/local/bin than /usr/bin but still the problem persists. please suggest a way to fix.
The way I have solved this (and I know it works) is to first install Python 2.7 in whatever way you'd like, then install pip using Python 2.7 which will give you pip2.7. You can then use pip2.7 to install the google_compute_engine module so that it ends up in the right modules folder.
# get pip2.7
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python2.7 get-pip.py
# install the gcloud module
pip2.7 install google_compute_engine
You can then add this to your $HOME/.bashrc
export CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python2.7
This is the best repeatable way I know of
Go to the google-cloud-sdk folder and open the install.sh file. Change the CLOUDSDK_PYTHON="python" value to CLOUDSDK_PYTHON="python2.7"
Rerun the install with the command:
./install.sh
Or you could install it using yum: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/downloads#yum
If you are on Windows This is a simple solution that worked for me:
open Powershell as administrator and run this to add your Python folder to your environment's PATH:
$env:Path += ";C:\python27_x64\"
Then re-run the command that gave you the original error. It should work fine.
Alternatively you could run that original (error-causing) command within the Cloud SDK Shell. That also worked for me.
The Cloud SDK RPM packages are supported for Red Hat Enterprise Level 7 and CentOS 7., so I think CentOS upgrade to version 7 or more is safer option for this problem. – Yogesh Patil