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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 commands 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.
If you have the old snap package, google-cloud-sdk, installed, remove it at the
command line:
snap remove google-cloud-sdk
You can't install the new snap package without removing this package because both installations
require the same aliases.
At the command line, install the gcloud CLI snap package:
snapinstallgoogle-cloud-cli--classic
Optional. To add the gcloud CLI tools to your PATH and enable command
completion in your Bash shell, source
/path/to/gcloud/completion.bash.inc in your profile.
For Zsh shells, use /path/to/gcloud/completion.zsh.inc instead.
To initialize the gcloud CLI and get started, run
gcloud init:
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