Installed Google Cloud SDK but can't access gcloud
NicoM via StackOverflow
I am trying to install the Google Cloud SDK on OSX and do this node.js tutorial (https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/getting-started/hello-world) and keep running into a problem where the gcloud is not found. It might be just be something simple about setting in or where I'm in saving the file.
I've read a ton of other posts here but haven't been able to solve this problem. Here are all the steps/issues:
I already created a project in the dev console.
Install the cloud sdk
MacBook-Pro-2:~ nico$ curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash
Then go through the process
Directory to extract under (this will create a directory google-cloud-sdk) (/Users/nico):
Do you want to help improve the Google Cloud SDK (Y/n)? y
Modify profile to update your $PATH and enable bash completion? (Y/n)? y
Enter path to an rc file to update, or leave blank to use [/Users/nico/.bash_profile]:
Then I tried to authenticate:
MacBook-Pro-2:~ nico$ gcloud auth login
-bash: gcloud: command not found
Then I went into a cloud sdk bin directory
MacBook-Pro-2:~ nico$ cd google-cloud-sdk/bin
MacBook-Pro-2:bin nico$ ./gcloud auth login
Authentication was successful
MacBook-Pro-2:bin nico$ ./gcloud config set project helloworld-project
Setting the project was successful
MacBook-Pro-2:bin nico$ ./gcloud components update app
ERROR: (gcloud.components.update) Your current working directory is inside the Cloud SDK install root: /Users/nico/google-cloud-sdk.
In order to perform this update, run the command from outside of this directory.
So then I move out of that directory
MacBook-Pro-2:test_project nico$ gcloud components update app
-bash: gcloud: command not found
And now it's not working, do I have to set gcloud somewhere so it can be access globally? How can I update it and access the gcloud command line tool?
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Michael Aaron Safyan via StackOverflow
Try creating a new shell; after updating your PATH, you may need to reload the shell before the update to the PATH variable takes effect. You can see if "gcloud" is defined using the command:
which gcloud
If that doesn't work, then I'd recommend just updating your PATH manually. To do that, edit ~/.profile:
nano ~/.profile
And then add the following line at the very end:
export PATH="$HOME/google-cloud-sdk/bin:$PATH"
And restart your shell. Note that if you are using a shell other than the builtin Terminal, you may need to edit a different file (such as ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile for a custom BASH installation, and various other "rc" files for altnerative shells such as ZSH, CSH, etc.) to update your PATH variable.
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