Installing a Snap package

If you prefer automatic updates, you can install the Google Cloud CLI using a snap package on Ubuntu systems. This package contains the gcloud CLI, gcloud alpha, gcloud beta, gsutil, docker-credential-gcloud, and bq command-line tools only. It doesn't include kubectl or the App Engine extensions required to deploy an application using the gcloud CLI. If you need these components, install the Debian package instead.

  1. If you have the old snap package google-cloud-sdk installed, remove it with the following command: 
    snap remove google-cloud-sdk
     You can't install the new snap package without removing this package because both installations require the same aliases.
  2. Install the gcloud CLI snap package: 
    snap install google-cloud-cli --classic
  3. Optional: To enable command completion, update your profile to source the completion script.

    For Bash shells, run the following command:

    echo "source /snap/google-cloud-cli/current/completion.bash.inc" >> ~/.bashrc

    For Zsh shells, run the following command:

    echo "source /snap/google-cloud-cli/current/completion.zsh.inc" >> ~/.zshrc

    You must restart your shell for this change to take effect.

  4. Run gcloud init to initialize, authorize, and configure the gcloud CLI.