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

Building off of Vilas's explanation above: you can't run the updater for the built in gcloud image. However you can install a copy of gcloud outside of the package manager and run the updater on that gcloud install.