How to install Google Cloud CLI on Linux?

Pre-requisites

Before the installation of the gcloud CLI, confirm that Python 3 is installed (Python 3.5 or higher, 3.7 is recommended).

Installation steps

Follow the following steps to install the Google Cloud CLI.

Step 1: Download source

Download one of the following tarball depending upon your operating system. If you don’t know what your operating system is, run the getconf LONG_BIT command:

• Linux 64-bit (x86_64)google-cloud-cli-387.0.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
• Linux 64-bit (arm)
• Linux 32-bit (x86)

Or, run the following command to download the Linux 64-bit archive file:

Run the following command to download the Linux 64-bit arm archive file:

Run the following command to download Linux 32-bit archive file:

Step 2: Extract the content

Run the following command to extract the content of the downloaded archive file.

Make sure the file name is correct after tar -xf. The above example is for the 32-bit archive file.

Note: To replace the existing installation, delete all content of the google-cloud-sdk directory and extract the content in the google-cloud-sdk directory.

Step 3: Install gcloud

From the root folder where you’ve extracted the archive file, run the following command to execute the installation script.

To install google-cloud-cli non-interactively, set all preferences as flags. Use the --help flag with the above command to see all preferences.

Step 4: Answer prompts

Answer Y to the prompt if you want to send the usage statistics anonymously to Google for the improvement of Google Cloud CLI.

Answer Y to the prompt to enable the command completion and to add the gcloud CLI to your PATH.

Step 5: Initialize gcloud

Use the following command to initialize the gcloud CLI:

Step 6: Install additional gcloud components (optional)

Use the following command to install the additional components of gcloud.

For example, use the following function to install the AppCtl component:

Similarly, update and remove keywords can be used instead of install to update and remove the gcloud components.