gcloud component update fails

Question

I\'ve deployed to VM\'s running Debian on GCE and have cron scripts that use gcloud commands.

I noticed that gcloud components update retuns this error

Answer 1

Came here while trying to gcloud components install [x] on a Docker container from google/cloud-sdk and getting the same error (I am probably not the only one on this situation).

Unfortunately, apt-get install google-cloud-sdk (as suggested on the most upvoted answer) didn't help.

But the ugly sed on config file did the trick. Dirty but efficient fix (for the moment).

RUN sed -i -e 's/"disable_updater": true,/"disable_updater": false,/' /usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/lib/googlecloudsdk/core/config.json